Nonstop flight route between Akjoujt, Mauritania and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Akjoujt Airport (AJJ), Akjoujt, Mauritania and RAF High Wycombe (HYC), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,327 miles (or 3,744 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 relatively short distance between Akjoujt Airport and RAF High Wycombe, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Akjoujt Airport (AJJ):

• The furthest airport from Akjoujt Airport (AJJ) is Koné Airport (KNQ), which is nearly antipodal to Akjoujt Airport (meaning Akjoujt Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Koné Airport), and is located 12,333 miles (19,847 kilometers) away in Koné, New Caledonia.
• The closest airport to Akjoujt Airport (AJJ) is Atar Airport (ATR), which is located 102 miles (164 kilometers) ENE of AJJ.

Facts about RAF High Wycombe (HYC):

• Operationally during the Cold War the Director UKWMO would have been located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command within Strike Command's Operations Centre nuclear bunker at RAF High Wycombe to instigate the national Four minute air raid warnings, with the Deputy Director located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being "elsewhere in the UK", but has since been revealed as being at Goosnargh near Preston within the UKWMO Western Sector nuclear bunker.
• The closest airport to RAF High Wycombe (HYC) is RAF Benson (BEX), which is located only 13 miles (22 kilometers) WSW of HYC.
• The actor David Jason officially opened the station's new welfare centre, named after Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott, in July 2011.
• Since 2009, the station has been responsible for reviewing UFO sightings as part of efforts to identify any possible unauthorised military incursions into UK airspace.
• The furthest airport from RAF High Wycombe (HYC) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,867 miles (19,098 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• From 1983 to 1984 there was a peace camp protesting against the building of a bunker there at that time to house RAF Strike Command.
• The location of the station was originally suggested by Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott when the Air Ministry was seeking a new, secure, site for Bomber Command away from London.