Nonstop flight route between Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Abéché, Chad:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ), Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Abéché Airport (AEH), Abéché, Chad would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,881 miles (or 4,637 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 RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 and Abéché 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 RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 and Abéché Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ):

• The closest airport to RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WNW of BEQ.
• The 364th FG flew escort, dive-bombing, strafing, and patrol missions in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.
• From 1950 to 1956, RAF Honington housed No.
• IX Squadron flew the first RAF bombing raid of the Second World War on 4 September 1939 flying a mission against the Kriegsmarine in the Baltic resulting in the loss of two Wellingtons.
• RAF Honington is also now home to 611 Volunteer Gliding Squadron due to the closure of RAF Watton in April 2012, requiring their conversion to the Grob 109B Vigilant motor glider.
• In 1941, a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by ground fire from Honington.
• Besides the air depot, Honington also housed an operational fighter unit when the 364th Fighter Group took up residence at Honington in February 1944, arriving from Santa Maria AAF, California.
• The furthest airport from RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,834 miles (19,044 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Honington was assigned USAAF designation Station 375.

Facts about Abéché Airport (AEH):

• The furthest airport from Abéché Airport (AEH) is Manihiki Island Airport (MHX), which is nearly antipodal to Abéché Airport (meaning Abéché Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Manihiki Island Airport), and is located 12,167 miles (19,581 kilometers) away in Manihiki Island, Cook Islands.
• The closest airport to Abéché Airport (AEH) is Oum-Hadjer Airport (OUM), which is located 86 miles (138 kilometers) WSW of AEH.
• Abéché Airport (AEH) currently has only 1 runway.