Icelandic Flying Students
During WW II Konnie taught many Icelandic-speaking students to fly so that they could then enlist in the R.C.A.F. or R.A.F.
These pictures were taken from the book "The History of Icelandic Aviation."
The three founders of Loftleidir with their Grumman Widgeon.
Loftleidir is now a part of
Icelandair.
A group of Icelandic students
Captain Smari Karlsson, another student.
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