JarekSteliga
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I read this in Jeremy Clarkson's, "I know you got soul" in the chapter on Spitfire:
"After a great deal of fettling and tweaking they got it up to 335 mph, but this was only 5 mph faster than Hawker's much simpler and cheaper Hurricane. So, being British, the engineers took their pipes to the potting shed and realised that the propeller's tips were encountering Mach problems."
The only meaning of "potting shed" I was able to find is "gardener's shed where they keep young plants/seedlings in pots". I do not quite see (or rather I quite don't see :-?) why the engineers should take their pipes to any such place in order to overcome the Mach problems.
"After a great deal of fettling and tweaking they got it up to 335 mph, but this was only 5 mph faster than Hawker's much simpler and cheaper Hurricane. So, being British, the engineers took their pipes to the potting shed and realised that the propeller's tips were encountering Mach problems."
The only meaning of "potting shed" I was able to find is "gardener's shed where they keep young plants/seedlings in pots". I do not quite see (or rather I quite don't see :-?) why the engineers should take their pipes to any such place in order to overcome the Mach problems.