Nonstop flight route between Franca, São Paulo, Brazil and Tonopah, Nevada, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC), Franca, São Paulo, Brazil and Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD), Tonopah, Nevada, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,041 miles (or 9,722 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 Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport and Tonopah Test Range Airport, 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 Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport and Tonopah Test Range Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC):

• The furthest airport from Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (meaning Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,064 miles (19,414 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.
• In addition to being known as "Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport", another name for FRC is "Aeroporto Estadual Ten. Lund Presetto".
• The closest airport to Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) is Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport (RAO), which is located 46 miles (73 kilometers) SW of FRC.
• It is operated by DAESP.
• Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport handled 2,105 passengers last year.
• Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD):

• The furthest airport from Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,207 miles (18,036 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• After the 4477th TES was inactivated, the remaining assets were reconstituted as a detachment of the 57th Fighter Wing at Nellis AFB.
• The closest airport to Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Tonopah Airport (TPH), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) NW of XSD.
• On 16 August 1966, Iraqi Air Force Captain Munir Redfa took off from Rasheed Air Base, near Baghdad on a routine navigation training flight.
• In 1980 the 4477th TEF was re-designated as the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron and the operation was renamed again to Constant Peg.
• The MiG-21 posed a major threat to Israeli Air Defenses as well as to American pilots over the skies of North Vietnam.
• In 1969 Pakistan supplied the U.S.
• The Tonopah Test Range airfield came into existence in 1957 and was used by the Department of Energy, the Air Force, and several contractors.
• The advent of Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War in March of 1965 led to the introduction of the obsolete and subsonic MiG-17 and the supersonic MiG-21 by the North Vietnamese Air Force being pitted against U.S.