Nonstop flight route between Bozoum, Central African Republic and Mountain View, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bozoum Airport (BOZ), Bozoum, Central African Republic and Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ), Mountain View, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,397 miles (or 13,513 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 Bozoum Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield, 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 Bozoum Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bozoum Airport (BOZ):

• The furthest airport from Bozoum Airport (BOZ) is Manihiki Island Airport (MHX), which is nearly antipodal to Bozoum Airport (meaning Bozoum Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Manihiki Island Airport), and is located 12,103 miles (19,478 kilometers) away in Manihiki Island, Cook Islands.
• Bozoum Airport (BOZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Bozoum Airport", another name for BOZ is "Bozoum Airport (Bozoum)".
• The closest airport to Bozoum Airport (BOZ) is Bouar Airport (BOP), which is located 51 miles (82 kilometers) WSW of BOZ.

Facts about Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ):

• The airship hangar's interior is so large that fog sometimes forms near the ceiling.
• Because of Moffett Federal Airfield's relatively low elevation of 32 feet, planes can take off or land at Moffett Federal Airfield 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.
• Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) has 2 runways.
• After the crashing of the Macon on 12 February 1935, the Navy wanted to close Moffett Field due to its high cost of operations.
• In 1931, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000 acres parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly $480,000 raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
• The furthest airport from Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,365 miles (18,290 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• The US Navy is evaluating options for remediating the PCBs, lead and asbestos, and NASA is evaluating options for reuse of the hangar.
• The closest airport to Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (PAO), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NW of NUQ.
• Post-Cold War defense cutbacks and related Base Realignment and Closure actions in the 1990s identified NAS Moffett Field for closure.
• On 1 July 1994, NAS Moffett Field was closed as a naval air station and turned over to the NASA Ames Research Center.
• Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres.
• In 1940, the US Navy proposed to the US Congress the development of a lighter-than-air station program for anti-submarine patrolling of the coast and harbors.