Nonstop flight route between Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany and Jönköping, Sweden:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL), Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany and Jönköping Airport (JKG), Jönköping, Sweden would travel a Great Circle distance of 670 miles (or 1,078 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 relatively short distance between Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base and Jönköping Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL):

• When the Allied Forces moved in to take possession of the field in late April, they found that Prisoners of War and townspeople had looted until they left a deserted installation.
• The mission of the 1117th TRW was to provide tactical, visual, photographic and electronic reconnaissance by both day and night, as was required by the military forces within the European command.
• The RAF and USAAF understood that Fürstenfeldbruck was being used extensively as a training base, and believed it to be of little strategic importance.
• Fürstenfeldbruck became famous first as the main training base for the German Luftwaffe during World War II, then as the site of the Munich massacre of nine Israeli athletes and coaches and one German police officer at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
• In addition to being known as "Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base", another name for FEL is "Flugplatz FürstenfeldbruckAdvanced Landing Ground R-72".
• The closest airport to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL) is Augsburg Airport (AGB), which is located 22 miles (35 kilometers) NW of FEL.
• Markings of the squadrons consisted of a color band under the fin, and a long lightning flash with an arrowhead tip on its forward end, extending back from the nose to the center of the fuselage.
• The squadrons retained the same color designations with their F-84s, however the F-84 markings consisted of a solid geometric shape painted on the vertical stabilizer, just above the radio call number, with a capital letter specific to each aircraft at the center.
• The furthest airport from Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,958 miles (19,244 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (FEL) currently has only 1 runway.
• Allied reprisal bombing began to desolate many German cities in 1944 and in October the Luftwaffe leaders rushed work to extend the Air Base's runways long enough for fighter aircraft takeoffs.

Facts about Jönköping Airport (JKG):

• There is parking at the airport, short-term and long-term parking lots.
• In the arrival terminal there is a telephone direct connected to the local taxi company.
• Länstrafiken buses departs in connection to some flights.
• Because of Jönköping Airport's relatively low elevation of 741 feet, planes can take off or land at Jönköping 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.
• The furthest airport from Jönköping Airport (JKG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,372 miles (18,301 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Jönköping Airport (JKG) is Lidköping-Hovby Airport (LDK), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) NNW of JKG.
• Jönköping Airport (JKG) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Jönköping Airport", another name for JKG is "Jönköping flygplats".