Nonstop flight route between Dirico, Angola and Brussels, Belgium:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Dirico Airport (DRC), Dirico, Angola and Brussels Airport (BRU), Brussels, Belgium would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,861 miles (or 7,823 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 Dirico Airport and Brussels 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 Dirico Airport and Brussels Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Dirico Airport (DRC):

• Dirico Airport (DRC) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Dirico Airport", another name for DRC is "Dirico Airport (Dirico)".
• The closest airport to Dirico Airport (DRC) is Rundu Airport (NDU), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) W of DRC.
• The furthest airport from Dirico Airport (DRC) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Dirico Airport (meaning Dirico Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,196 miles (19,627 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.

Facts about Brussels Airport (BRU):

• The closest airport to Brussels Airport (BRU) is Antwerp International Airport (ANR), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) N of BRU.
• During the boom of commercial aviation in the 1960s and 1970s, several hangars were constructed.
• On 18 February 2013, in the 2013 Belgium diamond heist, eight men armed with automatic weapons and dressed in police uniforms seized 120 small parcels containing an estimated US$50 million worth of diamonds off of a Helvetic Airways Fokker 100 passenger plane loaded with passengers preparing for departure to Zurich, Switzerland.
• Pier A West is a planned expansion of Pier A, and is meant to relieve Pier B by also handling flights from non-Schengen countries.
• The furthest airport from Brussels Airport (BRU) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,945 miles (19,223 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Brussels Airport (BRU) has 3 runways.
• Because of Brussels Airport's relatively low elevation of 184 feet, planes can take off or land at Brussels 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.
• In addition to being known as "Brussels Airport", another name for BRU is "Luchthaven Brussel-Nationaal (Dutch)Aéroport de Bruxelles-National (French)".
• In 1956 a new 2,300 m runway was constructed, the 07R/25L which runs parallel with 07L/25R.
• Before Sabena went out of business, its head office was in the Sabena House on the grounds of Brussels Airport.
• Brussels Airport handled 19,133,222 passengers last year.