Merlin negative G cutout too quick?

[winny]

The problem in the Merlin carb was the fuel resevoir/float tank.
It's pretty much like the cistern on a toilet. With a float/valve system to refill

Fuel sit's in there and the supply to carb is taken from there. It's done purley by gravity. In negative G the fuel moves to the wrong end of the resevoir and so starves the engine.

Miss Shillings work around was a metal plate with a hole in it that slowed the liquid movement down. It didn't completely get rid of the Neg - G problem but it gave you more time before the fuel emptied from the resevoir