Nonstop flight route between Ferkessédougou, Côte d'Ivoire and Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Ferkessedougou Airport (FEK), Ferkessédougou, Côte d'Ivoire and RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,975 miles (or 4,788 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 Ferkessedougou Airport and RAF Lakenheath, 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 Ferkessedougou Airport and RAF Lakenheath. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Ferkessedougou Airport (FEK):

• The closest airport to Ferkessedougou Airport (FEK) is Korhogo Airport (HGO), which is located 28 miles (46 kilometers) WSW of FEK.
• The furthest airport from Ferkessedougou Airport (FEK) is Funafuti International Airport (FUN), which is nearly antipodal to Ferkessedougou Airport (meaning Ferkessedougou Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Funafuti International Airport), and is located 12,128 miles (19,518 kilometers) away in Funafuti, Tuvalu.

Facts about RAF Lakenheath (LKZ):

• The furthest airport from RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• By the time construction ended the war with Germany was over and RAF Lakenheath was put on a care and maintenance status.
• The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.
• The first use of Lakenheath Warren as a Royal Flying Corps airfield was in World War I, when the area was made into a bombing and ground-attack range for aircraft flying from elsewhere in the area.
• The increasing tension of the Cold War lead to a re-evaluation of these deployments, and by 1953 SAC bombers began to move its heavy bomb groups further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford, while its shorter-range B-47 were sent to East Anglia.