Icelandic Air Force noun (around Gimli, Manitoba) flocks of pelicans CANADA
Gimli, with its large Icelandic population, calls the large pelican population “the Icelandic Air Force.” Once there was a large Air Force training base there, but now it only caters to out-of-fuel Air Canada flights. — Chris Thain, ColdasaBayStreetBanker’sHeart, p. 88, 1987