Nonstop flight route between St Athan, Wales, United Kingdom and Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between MoD St Athan (DGX), St Athan, Wales, United Kingdom and Carolina Airport (CLN), Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,517 miles (or 10,488 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 MoD St Athan and Carolina 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 MoD St Athan and Carolina Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about MoD St Athan (DGX):

• Because of MoD St Athan's relatively low elevation of 163 feet, planes can take off or land at MoD St Athan 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 closest airport to MoD St Athan (DGX) is Cardiff Airport (CWL), which is located only 4 miles (6 kilometers) E of DGX.
• In March 2004, however, DARA announced the loss of 550 jobs at St Athan as part of streamlining to make DARA more efficient and better able to compete with the private sector for lucrative aircraft repair contracts, but also because they lost out to a direct RAF bid for a contract to upgrade the air force's fleet of ageing Harrier jump jet aircraft.
• MOD St Athan is a large Ministry of Defence unit near the village of St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, southern Wales.
• The MOD continued to negotiate the project with the Metrix Consortium, but the price rose several times, reaching £14 billion in mid-2009.
• The new academy was claimed to create up to 5000 jobs at St Athan with a £14 billion investment over 25 years with an estimated £57.4 million spent into the local economy.
• RAF St Athan was also home for the Royal Air Force Administrative Apprentice Training School.
• The furthest airport from MoD St Athan (DGX) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,960 miles (19,248 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• MoD St Athan (DGX) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Carolina Airport (CLN):

• In addition to being known as "Carolina Airport", other names for CLN include "Carolina Airport (Michilla)", "Aeropuerto Carolina" and "SCMY".
• Carolina Airport (CLN) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Carolina Airport's relatively low elevation of 128 feet, planes can take off or land at Carolina 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.
• The closest airport to Carolina Airport (CLN) is Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport (former Cerro Moreno International Airport) (ANF), which is located 52 miles (84 kilometers) SSW of CLN.
• The furthest airport from Carolina Airport (CLN) is Beihai Fucheng Airport (BHY), which is nearly antipodal to Carolina Airport (meaning Carolina Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Beihai Fucheng Airport), and is located 12,352 miles (19,878 kilometers) away in Beihai, Guangxi, China.