Nonstop flight route between Le Lamentin / Fort de France, Martinique and Lasham, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Aimé Césaire Airport (FDF), Le Lamentin / Fort de France, Martinique and Lasham Airfield (QLA), Lasham, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,146 miles (or 6,672 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 Aimé Césaire Airport and Lasham Airfield, 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 Aimé Césaire Airport and Lasham Airfield. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Aimé Césaire Airport (FDF):

• Trans services Antilles, Martinique Ground Handing, Aircraft Global Assistant, Jet Aviation Services, GPAF, SOCAMA, Air Techs, Atis
• Because of Aimé Césaire Airport's relatively low elevation of 16 feet, planes can take off or land at Aimé Césaire 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.
• Aimé Césaire Airport (FDF) currently has only 1 runway.
• When Air Martinique existed, its head office was on the airport property.
• In addition to being known as "Aimé Césaire Airport", other names for FDF include "Aéroport de Fort-de-France – Le Lamentin" and "Fort-de-France – Aimé Césaire Airport".
• The closest airport to Aimé Césaire Airport (FDF) is George F. L. Charles Airport (SLU), which is located 40 miles (64 kilometers) S of FDF.
• The airport resides at an elevation of 16 ft above mean sea level.
• Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport is the international airport of Martinique in the French West Indies.
• The furthest airport from Aimé Césaire Airport (FDF) is Broome International Airport (BME), which is nearly antipodal to Aimé Césaire Airport (meaning Aimé Césaire Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Broome International Airport), and is located 12,121 miles (19,507 kilometers) away in Broome, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Lasham Airfield (QLA):

• The airfield ceased to be an operational Royal Air Force station in 1948, though General Aircraft Ltd continued testing military gliders there.
• The furthest airport from Lasham Airfield (QLA) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,896 miles (19,145 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• The club uses two Skylaunch winches, normally delivering launch heights of 1500 ft and over 2000 ft in strong winds.
• The airfield is now owned by the largest British gliding club, also one of the world's largest, Lasham Gliding Society.
• The closest airport to Lasham Airfield (QLA) is RAF Odiham (ODH), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NE of QLA.
• ATC Lasham has occasionally provided storage for redundant aircraft.
• The airfield was constructed in 1942.
• Lasham Airfield is located 3.6 miles north-west of Alton in Hampshire, England, in the village of Lasham.
• Because of Lasham Airfield's relatively low elevation of 618 feet, planes can take off or land at Lasham Airfield 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.
• Lasham Airfield (QLA) currently has only 1 runway.