Nonstop flight route between Waco Kungo, Angola and Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (CEO), Waco Kungo, Angola and RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,495 miles (or 7,233 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 Waku Kungo Airport/Cela and RAF Lakenheath, 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 Waku Kungo Airport/Cela and RAF Lakenheath. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CEO / FNWK |
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Location: | Waco Kungo, Angola |
GPS Coordinates: | 11°25'35"S by 15°6'5"E |
Area Served: | Waku Kungo |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 4278 feet (1,304 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CEO |
More Information: | CEO Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LKZ / EGUL |
Airport Name: | RAF Lakenheath |
Location: | Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 52°24'29"N by 0°33'24"E |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
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More Information: | LKZ Maps & Info |
Facts about Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (CEO):
- Because of Waku Kungo Airport/Cela's high elevation of 4,278 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at CEO. Combined with a high temperature, this could make CEO a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The furthest airport from Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (CEO) is Johnston Atoll Airport (JON), which is located 11,957 miles (19,242 kilometers) away in Johnston Atoll, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.
- In addition to being known as "Waku Kungo Airport/Cela", another name for CEO is "Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (Waku Kungo)".
- Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (CEO) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Waku Kungo Airport/Cela (CEO) is Albano Machado (Huambo) Airport (NOV), which is located 105 miles (170 kilometers) SSE of CEO.
Facts about RAF Lakenheath (LKZ):
- By the time construction ended the war with Germany was over and RAF Lakenheath was put on a care and maintenance status.
- The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.
- The furthest airport from RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- The first use of Lakenheath Warren as a Royal Flying Corps airfield was in World War I, when the area was made into a bombing and ground-attack range for aircraft flying from elsewhere in the area.
- The increasing tension of the Cold War lead to a re-evaluation of these deployments, and by 1953 SAC bombers began to move its heavy bomb groups further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford, while its shorter-range B-47 were sent to East Anglia.
- In response to the threat by the Soviet Union, by the 1948 Berlin blockade, President Truman decided to realign USAFE into a permanent combat-capable force.