After the war, Shilling also worked on the Blue Streak missile, researched the effect of a wet runway upon braking, and helped design and build a bobsled for the Royal Air Force's Olympic team.

[2] As a child Shilling spent her pocket money on hand tools and won a prize in a national Meccano contest.

[5] Jobs were hard to find in the Great Depression; she worked as a research assistant for Professor G. F. Mucklow at the University of Birmingham.

[9] Shilling devised a restrictor to solve this problem, originally a brass thimble with a hole in the middle and later further simplified to a flat washer of very precise dimensions.

By March 1941 she had led a small team on a tour of RAF fighter stations (Shilling travelling on her former racing motorbike), to fit the device to their Merlin engines.

After the war, Shilling worked on a variety of projects including the Blue Streak missile[5] and the effect of a wet runway upon braking.

[5] Despite becoming an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1949, Shilling never reached a top post in the RAE, since such promotions were only offered to men.

[13] After the Second World War Beatrice and husband George turned to racing cars, which were tuned and modified extensively in their home workshop – starting off their exploits with a much-lightened 1934 Lagonda Rapier registered KG 5363.

[14] In 1967 Shilling was brought in to help US Formula 1 driver and team owner Dan Gurney solve an overheating problems with his Eagle Mk1 F1 racing car.

[3] In a 2011 review of her biography, reviewer Graham White noted that while sexism undoubtedly did hold a large influence over her frustrations, he agreed with a previous author's assertion that her not conforming to professional dress standards that would be expected of a white collar professional in Britain at this time likely did hurt her chances of advancement as "in fact she looked pretty awful" and "she looked like a frumpy old British housewife".

[18] According to anecdote, she declined to marry him until he also had been awarded the Brooklands Gold Star for lapping the circuit on a motorcycle at over 100 mph.

[24] On 27 March 2019, Royal Holloway University opened the Beatrice Shilling Building, home to its new department of Electronic Engineering.

[28] Tilly and The Spitfires, a one-act play written by Rachel O'Neill, dealing with Shilling's personal and professional, was staged at The Discovery Centre (now The Arc) in Winchester in September 2019.