Nonstop flight route between Clinton, Oklahoma, United States and Dalian, Liaoning, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSM), Clinton, Oklahoma, United States and Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC), Dalian, Liaoning, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,682 miles (or 10,754 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 Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark and Dalian Zhoushuizi International 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 Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark and Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSM):

• Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSM) has 2 runways.
• The receipt of a launch site operator license gives Oklahoma a good position in the nascent space tourism industry — a market which is also being targeted by California, New Mexico, Florida and Wisconsin, as well as Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
• The furthest airport from Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSM) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,925 miles (17,582 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The location is a 2,700 acre facility located near transportation corridors such as Interstate 35 and Interstate 40.
• The closest airport to Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSM) is Clinton Regional Airport (CLK), which is located 20 miles (33 kilometers) NE of CSM.
• One company, Rocketplane Kistler, formerly based in Oklahoma, had plans to build a spacecraft and, as of 2006, had plans to offer commercial space flights from the Oklahoma Spaceport by 2009.

Facts about Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC):

• The airport has one 3,300 meter runway, and a 65,000 square-meter terminal building.
• Because of Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport's relatively low elevation of 108 feet, planes can take off or land at Dalian Zhoushuizi International 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.
• Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport handled 10,703,640 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC) is Necochea Airport (NEC), which is nearly antipodal to Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (meaning Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Necochea Airport), and is located 12,398 miles (19,953 kilometers) away in Necochea, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• In addition to being known as "Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport", other names for DLC include "大连周水子国际机场" and "Dàlián Zhōushuǐzǐ Guójì Jīchǎng".
• Most Chinese documentation describes 1972, the year of the reopening of this airport, as the start of Zhoushuizi.
• The closest airport to Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC) is Changhai Airport (CNI), which is located 64 miles (103 kilometers) ENE of DLC.
• Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC) currently has only 1 runway.