Google today celebrates Hedy Lamarr's brithday. Apart from being an acclaimed cine artist did you know that her invention during WWII is what gives us the Spread Spectrum and FHSS technology today that enables us to fly RC models with much lesser interference.
Her another connection to modelling world was through her first marriage. Her first marriage was with Friedrich Mandl Chairman of the
Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik, maker of the HP engines apart from their main business of manufacturing munitions.