Nonstop flight route between Güttin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield (GTI), Güttin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and RAF Lyneham (LYE), Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 667 miles (or 1,073 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 Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield and RAF Lyneham, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield (GTI):

• Because of Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield's relatively low elevation of 69 feet, planes can take off or land at Rügen Airport/ Güttin 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.
• Rügen Airport, also known as Bergen Airfield or Güttin Airfield, is the only airfield on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
• The furthest airport from Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield (GTI) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,584 miles (18,643 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield", another name for GTI is "Flugplatz Rügen/ Regionalflugplatz Güttin".
• The closest airport to Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield (GTI) is Stralsund Barth Airport (BBH), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) W of GTI.
• In the years after 1990 the first charter flights to Bornholm, Berlin-Tempelhof and Hamburg were added.
• The airfield started life as an agricultural airstrip in Güttin with a grass runway.
• Rügen Airport/ Güttin Airfield (GTI) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about RAF Lyneham (LYE):

• The closest airport to RAF Lyneham (LYE) is RAF Fairford (FFD), which is located only 15 miles (24 kilometers) NE of LYE.
• 511 Squadron was formed again at RAF Lyneham on 15 December 1959, as the second squadron to operate the Bristol Britannia on long-range trooping flights.
• Because of RAF Lyneham's relatively low elevation of 512 feet, planes can take off or land at RAF Lyneham 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.
• A single enemy aircraft attacked the station on 19 September 1940, dropping an incendiary and two high explosive bombs before strafing part of the airfield.
• With the increase in air transport operations in the RAF, as opposed to ferrying, Transport Command was formed in March 1943.
• It was announced in July 2011 by the then-Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, that Lyneham would become the new site of the Defence Technical Training Change Programme centre.
• RAF Lyneham (LYE) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from RAF Lyneham (LYE) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,913 miles (19,172 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• From 1958 Lyneham became one of the 18 Stations designated as dispersal airfields for the RAF's nuclear deterrent V bomber Force.