Nonstop flight route between Long Pahangai, West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia and Ruislip, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Datadawai Airport (DTD), Long Pahangai, West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia and RAF Northolt (NHT), Ruislip, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,223 miles (or 11,625 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 Datadawai Airport and RAF Northolt, 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 Datadawai Airport and RAF Northolt. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Datadawai Airport (DTD):

• The furthest airport from Datadawai Airport (DTD) is Barcelos Airport (BAZ), which is nearly antipodal to Datadawai Airport (meaning Datadawai Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Barcelos Airport), and is located 12,260 miles (19,731 kilometers) away in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil.
• Datadawai Airport (DTD) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Datadawai Airport", another name for DTD is "Bandar Udara Datah Dawai".
• The closest airport to Datadawai Airport (DTD) is Long Apung Airport (LPU), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) NNE of DTD.

Facts about RAF Northolt (NHT):

• Attention was high again in 2001 when Ronnie Biggs, the seriously ill, fugitive Great Train Robber, was flown from Brazil to the airfield to be arrested by waiting police officers.
• Northolt became an active base during the Second World War for Royal Air Force and Polish Air Force squadrons in their defence of the United Kingdom.
• In April 2013, the Ministry of Defence announced a proposal to increase the number of private flights from 7,000 to 12,000 per year as part of plans to increase the income generated by the airfield.
• RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles from Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London.
• In December 1946, after taking off during a heavy snowstorm, a Douglas DC-3 operated by British European Airways, flying from Northolt to Glasgow, crashed onto the roof of a house in South Ruislip.
• The closest airport to RAF Northolt (NHT) is London Heathrow Airport (LHR), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) SSW of NHT.
• The furthest airport from RAF Northolt (NHT) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,871 miles (19,105 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Thirty Allied airmen including servicemen from Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, New Zealand, Poland and the United Kingdom were killed flying from RAF Northolt during the Battle of Britain, of whom ten were Polish.
• The outbreak of the First World War necessitated a new aerodrome for the Royal Flying Corps.