Nonstop flight route between Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ), Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Bouaké Airport (BYK), Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,100 miles (or 4,988 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 Bouaké 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 Bouaké 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 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.
• 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 Luftwaffe made several attacks on the airfield one of which killed about twenty airmen who were crossing the old parade ground on their way to tea.
• With the departure of the USAAF in February 1946, Honington airfield was returned to the RAF.
• In June 1942, the airfield was transferred to the USAAF and was upgraded to a Class A Bomber base.
• Converted from P-38 Lightnings to P-51 Mustangs in the summer of 1944 and from then until the end of the war flew many long-range escort missions heavy bombers that attacked oil refineries, industries, and other strategic objectives at Berlin, Regensburg, Merseburg, Stuttgart, Brussels, and elsewhere.
• 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.

Facts about Bouaké Airport (BYK):

• The closest airport to Bouaké Airport (BYK) is Katiola Airport (KTC), which is located 27 miles (44 kilometers) N of BYK.
• Bouaké Airport (BYK) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Bouaké Airport (BYK) is Funafuti International Airport (FUN), which is nearly antipodal to Bouaké Airport (meaning Bouaké Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Funafuti International Airport), and is located 12,140 miles (19,537 kilometers) away in Funafuti, Tuvalu.