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The Glacier Adventure
Paperback
Transportation GeneralTravel GeneralGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9789935219435
Publisher: Ugla
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.77 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
At a time when Loftleiðir, Iceland's fledgling
airline was struggling to remain afloat in the
middle of the 20th century, a group of the
company's leading figures achieved the feat
of travelling high onto the country's largest
glacier to recover a DC-3 aircraft that the US
Air Force had been forced to abandon a year
before.
The aircraft turned out to be practically un- damaged and the Loftleiðir team were able to
fly it back to Reykjavík. The DC-3 was subsequently sold to an overseas airline and provided the company with much-needed finance at
a turbulent time in its history.
This book recounts the story of the recovery
expedition in words and pictures, making use
of the diaries of Alfreð Elíasson and Árni Kjartansson's outstanding photographs.
The expedition to the glacier took a whole
month and this is a tale of daring and endurance. Loftleiðir's pilots had flown over the
glacier while the aircraft was still visible on
the surface, enabling them to establish rough- ly its position. But at the site, they had to dig
seven metres through the snow to reach Jökull
(Glacier), as the DC-3 was christened.
This venture onto the glacier was a unique
achievement in the history of aviation, and is
well known among those with an interest in
flight around the world.
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