Nonstop flight route between Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Toyama, Toyama, Japan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ), Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom and Toyama Airport (TOY), Toyama, Toyama, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,752 miles (or 9,257 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 Toyama 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 Toyama 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 group patrolled the English Channel during the Normandy invasion in June 1944, and, while continuing escort operations, supported ground forces in France after the invasion by strafing and bombing locomotives, marshalling yards, bridges, barges, and other targets.
• Honington was the last USAAF station to be returned to the RAF.
• In June 1942, the airfield was transferred to the USAAF and was upgraded to a Class A Bomber base.
• 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.
• 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.
• English Electric Canberra bomber squadrons, 10, XV, 44, and 57 were based at RAF Honington from February 1955 to 1957.

Facts about Toyama Airport (TOY):

• In addition to being known as "Toyama Airport", other names for TOY include "富山空港" and "Toyama Kūkō".
• The furthest airport from Toyama Airport (TOY) is Rio Grande Regional Airport (RIG), which is located 11,818 miles (19,019 kilometers) away in Rio Grande, Brazil.
• Toyama Airport (TOY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Toyama Airport (TOY) is Komatsu Airport (KMQ), which is located 47 miles (75 kilometers) WSW of TOY.
• Because of Toyama Airport's relatively low elevation of 127 feet, planes can take off or land at Toyama 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.