Nonstop flight route between Læsø, Denmark and Marysville, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Laesoe Airfield (BYR), Læsø, Denmark and Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,226 miles (or 8,410 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 Laesoe Airfield and Beale Air Force Base, 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 Laesoe Airfield and Beale Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Laesoe Airfield (BYR):

• In addition to being known as "Laesoe Airfield", another name for BYR is "Læsø Flyveplads".
• Laesoe Airfield (BYR) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Laesoe Airfield (BYR) is Sindal Airport (CNL), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) WNW of BYR.
• Because of Laesoe Airfield's relatively low elevation of 25 feet, planes can take off or land at Laesoe 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.
• The furthest airport from Laesoe Airfield (BYR) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,452 miles (18,430 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• In 1959 Air Defense Command established a Semi Automatic Ground Environment Data Center was established at Beale AFB.
• The 940th Wing is a Reconnaissance, Command & Control and Intelligence unit assigned to the United States Air Force Reserve.
• The base is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California.
• The closest airport to Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Yuba County Airport (MYV), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) WSW of BAB.
• The host unit at Beale is the 9th Reconnaissance Wing assigned to the Air Combat Command and part of Twelfth Air Force.
• In 1948, Camp Beale became Beale AFB, its mission being to train bombardier navigators in radar techniques.
• The 456th BW was inactivated on 30 September 1975, and its equipment and personnel were redesignated as the 17th Bombardment Wing, Heavy when the senior unit was inactivated at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
• DC-18 was initially under the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, established on 15 February 1959.
• The furthest airport from Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,251 miles (18,107 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• On 24 May 1962, during a contractor checkout, a blast rocked launcher 1 at complex 4C at Chico, destroying a Titan I and causing heavy damage to the silo.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".