"Did he really!" said the gentleman to my left at The Monarchist League dinner this evening. He was taken aback when I told him my father had invented the de-icers on propeller planes during the war. Bob O'Connor had been a Canadian pilot in the RCAF and had relied heavily on those de-icers. He was amazed that my Dad had been the inventor of these life-saving devices, still used on all prop planes to this day.
"We could not have won the war without being able to fly in all kinds of weather. The de-icers made it all possible," he added. It's sort of weird that I am a link between this pilot who relied on de-icers and the guy who invented them. I was so proud of my Dad this evening.
What a giant.
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