Nonstop flight route between Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil and Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Guanambi Airport (GNM), Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ), Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,279 miles (or 8,495 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 Guanambi Airport and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375, 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 Guanambi Airport and RAF Honington USAAF Station 375. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Guanambi Airport (GNM):

• The closest airport to Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Bom Jesus da Lapa Airport (LAZ), which is located 79 miles (127 kilometers) NW of GNM.
• The furthest airport from Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is nearly antipodal to Guanambi Airport (meaning Guanambi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Yap International Airport), and is located 12,107 miles (19,484 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
• The airport is located 4 km from Guanambi city centre.
• Guanambi Airport (GNM) currently has only 1 runway.
• Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
• In addition to being known as "Guanambi Airport", another name for GNM is "Aeroporto de Guanambi".

Facts about RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ):

• In 1956, RAF Honington also became one of the main V bomber bases maintaining three Vickers Valiant squadrons, Nos, 7, 90, and 199.
• The Luftwaffe made several attacks on the airfield one of which killed about twenty airmen who were crossing the old parade ground on their way to tea.
• Besides the air depot, Honington also housed an operational fighter unit when the 364th Fighter Group took up residence at Honington in February 1944, arriving from Santa Maria AAF, California.
• The furthest airport from RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,834 miles (19,044 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF Honington USAAF Station 375 (BEQ) is RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) WNW of BEQ.
• Converted from P-38 Lightnings to P-51 Mustangs in the summer of 1944 and from then until the end of the war flew many long-range escort missions heavy bombers that attacked oil refineries, industries, and other strategic objectives at Berlin, Regensburg, Merseburg, Stuttgart, Brussels, and elsewhere.