Nonstop flight route between Blanding, Utah, United States and Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG), Blanding, Utah, United States and RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,895 miles (or 7,877 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 Blanding Municipal Airport and RAF Brize Norton, 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 Blanding Municipal Airport and RAF Brize Norton. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG):

• The furthest airport from Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,132 miles (17,915 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Because of Blanding Municipal Airport's high elevation of 5,868 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BDG. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BDG a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG) is Monticello Airport (MXC), which is located 25 miles (41 kilometers) NNE of BDG.

Facts about RAF Brize Norton (BZZ):

• By March 2011, 70 buildings had been refurbished on the station.
• The closest airport to RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is RAF Fairford (FFD), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WSW of BZZ.
• On 23 May 2001 the RAF's first C-17 arrived at Brize Norton, one of six to be delivered to 99 Squadron.
• By the end of June 2011 all flying units from RAF Lyneham had moved to RAF Brize Norton.
• With the closure of RAF Lyneham taking place in late 2011, the repatriation of British personnel was relocated to Brize Norton on 8 September 2011.
• By the 1950s Cold War tension was escalating and the United States envisaged stationing nuclear bombers in the United Kingdom as a deterrent to Soviet aggression.
• AirTanker Services is operating the RAF's Airbus A330 MRTT to provide aerial re-fuelling services at Brize Norton.
• Like many UK military bases RAF Brize Norton has been subject to limited protests by peace demonstrators.
• During the 2003 Iraq War four anti-war protesters managed to access the main runway in an attempt to prevent aircraft taking off.
• The furthest airport from RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,888 miles (19,132 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.