Icelandair?s newest plane is set to provide passengers with a guaranteed experience of the Vatnajökull glacier. If you’ve ever flown Icelandair, you likely know that all of their transatlantic planes are named after Icelandic volcanoes. This latest special livery joins the Hekla Aurora, created in 2015 and inspired by the northern lights, as the second hand crafted piece of […]The post Here’s How to Step Into Glacier Before You Even Get to Iceland appeared first on Pursuitist.

Icelandair?s newest plane is set to provide passengers with a guaranteed experience of the Vatnajökull glacier.If you’ve ever flown Icelandair, you likely know that all of their transatlantic planes are named after Icelandic volcanoes.This latest special livery joins the Hekla Aurora, created in 2015 and inspired by the northern lights, as the second hand crafted piece of artwork to adorn one of the Icelandair fleet. So now you can explore another natural phenomenon before you even land!Commissioned as part of the celebrations for their 80th anniversary this year, this plane is being spray painted by hand, by the same team of artists who created the Hekla Aurora plane.The process of airbrushing used to create the image of the glacier is a highly unusual, skilled job that will take the team a total of 24 days to complete using 195 litres of paint. It takes 1062 litres to cover the entire plane (which is over 200 domestic size tins).This could just be the ‘cool...