Nonstop flight route between Agana, Guam and Kryvyi Rih (Krivoy Rog), Ukraine:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Andersen Air Force Base (UAM), Agana, Guam and Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport (KWG), Kryvyi Rih (Krivoy Rog), Ukraine would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,479 miles (or 10,427 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Andersen Air Force Base and Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.
Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Andersen Air Force Base and Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | UAM / PGUA |
Airport Name: | Andersen Air Force Base |
Location: | Agana, Guam |
GPS Coordinates: | 13°34'51"N by 144°55'27"E |
View all routes: | Routes from UAM |
More Information: | UAM Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | KWG / UKDR |
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Location: | Kryvyi Rih (Krivoy Rog), Ukraine |
GPS Coordinates: | 48°2'35"N by 33°12'24"E |
Area Served: | Kryvyi Rih and Lozovatka |
Operator/Owner: | Kryvyi Rih City |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 408 feet (124 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from KWG |
More Information: | KWG Maps & Info |
Facts about Andersen Air Force Base (UAM):
- The frequent bombings resulted in a cease-fire in Vietnam, but the B-52s continued to fly missions over Cambodia and Laos until those were halted on 15 August 1973.
- With hostilities in Korea at a standstill, the 19th Bomb Wing headquarters relocated to Kadena Air Base, Japan in 1953, and was replaced by the 6319th Air Base Wing of the Far East Air Forces.
- B-29 Superfortress missions from North Field were attacks against strategic targets in Japan, initially operating in daylight and at high altitude to bomb factories, refineries, and other objectives.
- Andersen Air Force Base's origins begin on 7 December 1941 when Guam was attacked by the armed forces of Imperial Japan in the Battle of Guam three hours after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
- The closest airport to Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Guam International Airport (GUM), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SW of UAM.
- In 1951, the Strategic Air Command chose several overseas bases to support rotational unit deployments of its bombers from stateside bases, starting with B-29 Superfortress units and later including Convair B-36, B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress bombers, and KB-29 refueling tankers.
- The furthest airport from Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho) (SSA), which is nearly antipodal to Andersen Air Force Base (meaning Andersen Air Force Base is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho)), and is located 12,214 miles (19,656 kilometers) away in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Facts about Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport (KWG):
- Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport (KWG) currently has only 1 runway.
- The furthest airport from Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport (KWG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,991 miles (17,688 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- In addition to being known as "Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport", another name for KWG is ""Міжнародний аеропорт Кривий Ріг (Лозуватка)"".
- Because of Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport's relatively low elevation of 408 feet, planes can take off or land at Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
- The closest airport to Kryvyi Rih (Lozovatka) International Airport (KWG) is Kremenchuk (Velyka Kokhnivka) Airport (KHU), which is located 76 miles (123 kilometers) N of KWG.
- The airport lacked own web site as of January 8, 2013.