Ron Boyd

Ron Boyd was a helicopter pilot famous for discovering the wreckage of Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko's aircraft on June 7, 1962, about 100 kilometres north of Cochrane, Ontario, Canada. The wreckage, which had been missing for 11 years, was a Fairchild 24 belonging to the other occupant and pilot in command, Dr. Hudson. Ron Boyd and his engineer spotted the wreckage and threw toilet paper rolls like streamers out of the helicopter in order to "mark" the area so they could find it again.
The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup the year of the crash, and did not win it again until the year that Ron Boyd discovered the wreckage. The entire time that the wreckage was missing, the Toronto Maple Leafs did not win the Stanley Cup.
In addition to his famous discovery, Ron was the first helicopter pilot to test fly the Imax mount and camera for the helicopter, and he did a lot of testing and development with the mount. He eventually flew for the filming of a lot of Imax films that were shown at Imax theaters.

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