Nonstop flight route between Dschang, Cameroon and Dayton, Ohio, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Dschang Airport (DSC), Dschang, Cameroon and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO), Dayton, Ohio, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,195 miles (or 9,970 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 Dschang Airport and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 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 Dschang Airport and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Dschang Airport (DSC):

• Because of Dschang Airport's high elevation of 4,619 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at DSC. Combined with a high temperature, this could make DSC a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Dschang Airport (DSC) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Dschang Airport", another name for DSC is "Dschang Airport (Dschang)".
• The furthest airport from Dschang Airport (DSC) is Canton Island Airport (CIS), which is nearly antipodal to Dschang Airport (meaning Dschang Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Canton Island Airport), and is located 12,215 miles (19,658 kilometers) away in Canton Island, Kiribati.
• The closest airport to Dschang Airport (DSC) is Bafoussam Airport (BFX), which is located 21 miles (33 kilometers) ENE of DSC.

Facts about Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO):

• The Base had a total of 27,406 military, civilian and contract employees that work for the base in 2010.
• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio in Greene and Montgomery counties.
• In addition to being known as "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base", another name for FFO is "Wright-Patterson AFB".
• Aircraft operations on land now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base began in 1904–1905 when Wilbur and Orville Wright used an 84-acre plot of Huffman Prairie for experimental test flights with the Wright Flyer III.
• In February 1940 at Wright Field, the Army Air Corps established the Technical Data Branch.
• The NORAD Manual Air Defense Control Center for 58th Air Division interceptors was at Wright-Patterson AFB by 1958, and Brookfield Air Force Station near the Pennsylvania state line became operational as an April 1952-January 1963 sub-base of WPAFB.
• The furthest airport from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,306 miles (18,195 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Wright-Patterson AFB is "one of the largest, most diverse, and organizationally complex bases in the Air Force" with a long history of flight test spanning from the Wright Brothers into the Space Age.
• The closest airport to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO) is James M. Cox Dayton International Airport (DAY), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) WNW of FFO.
• The host unit at Wright-Patterson AFB is the 88th Air Base Wing, assigned to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force Materiel Command.