Nonstop flight route between Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom and Žilina, Slovakia:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom and Žilina Airport (ILZ), Žilina, Slovakia would travel a Great Circle distance of 902 miles (or 1,451 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 relatively short distance between RAF Brize Norton and Žilina Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | BZZ / EGVN |
| Airport Name: | RAF Brize Norton |
| Location: | Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| GPS Coordinates: | 51°45'0"N by 1°35'0"W |
| Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
| View all routes: | Routes from BZZ |
| More Information: | BZZ Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | ILZ / LZZI |
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| Location: | Žilina, Slovakia |
| GPS Coordinates: | 49°13'53"N by 18°36'47"E |
| Area Served: | Žilina |
| Operator/Owner: | Letisko Žilina a.s. |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 1020 feet (311 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 1 |
| View all routes: | Routes from ILZ |
| More Information: | ILZ Maps & Info |
Facts about RAF Brize Norton (BZZ):
- The station is home to Air Transport, Air-to-Air refuelling and Military Parachuting, with aircraft operating from the station including the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Airbus A330 MRTT Voyager which replaced the now decommissioned Lockheed TriStar in March 2014.
- The closest airport to RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is RAF Fairford (FFD), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WSW of BZZ.
- By the 1950s Cold War tension was escalating and the United States envisaged stationing nuclear bombers in the United Kingdom as a deterrent to Soviet aggression.
- The Hercules fleet at RAF Lyneham officially moved to Brize Norton on 1 July 2011.
- Like many UK military bases RAF Brize Norton has been subject to limited protests by peace demonstrators.
- Following the Falklands War, the RAF found itself lacking in the strategic transport capabilities required to sustain the expanded military presence there.
- The furthest airport from RAF Brize Norton (BZZ) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,888 miles (19,132 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Facts about Žilina Airport (ILZ):
- Žilina Airport (ILZ) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Žilina Airport (ILZ) is Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR), which is located 39 miles (63 kilometers) NW of ILZ.
- The furthest airport from Žilina Airport (ILZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,630 miles (18,717 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- In addition to being known as "Žilina Airport", another name for ILZ is "Letisko Žilina".
