Nonstop flight route between Peru, Indiana, United States and Łódź, Poland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Grissom Air Reserve Base (GUS), Peru, Indiana, United States and Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ), Łódź, Poland would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,652 miles (or 7,487 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 Grissom Air Reserve Base and Łódź Władysław Reymont 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 Grissom Air Reserve Base and Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Grissom Air Reserve Base (GUS):

• Grissom Air Reserve Base is located in North Central Indiana and is home to the largest KC-135R Stratotanker wing in the Air Force Reserve Command.
• The closest airport to Grissom Air Reserve Base (GUS) is Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK), which is located only 10 miles (15 kilometers) SSE of GUS.
• Strategic Air Command on 1 June 1959 moved the 305th Bombardment Wing, Medium, from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to Bunker Hill Air Force Base.
• Despite this activity, the end of the Cold War led to a downsizing of the military.
• In addition to being known as "Grissom Air Reserve Base", another name for GUS is "Grissom ARS".
• The furthest airport from Grissom Air Reserve Base (GUS) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,184 miles (17,998 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• The Air Force Reserve joined the Grissom personnel complement in the early 1970s with the activation of the 434th Special Operations Wing and their Cessna A-37 Dragonfly aircraft to the base on 15 January 1971.
• After World War II, the base area reverted to farming use.
• Until the retirement of the Space Shuttle on 21 July 2011, Grissom was listed as one of the emergency landing sites due to its 12,000 ft runway

Facts about Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ):

• The furthest airport from Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,523 miles (18,544 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport", other names for LCJ include "Port Lotniczy Łódź im. Władysława Reymonta" and "Łódź".
• The Łódź airport opened on September 13, 1925.
• Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ) has 2 runways.
• Because of Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport's relatively low elevation of 607 feet, planes can take off or land at Łódź Władysław Reymont 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 airport has been renamed after the celebrated 20th century Polish writer and the winner of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature, Władysław Reymont.
• The closest airport to Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ) is Warsaw–Modlin Mazovia Airport (WMI), which is located 73 miles (118 kilometers) NE of LCJ.
• The airport no longer has any domestic destinations since the bankruptcy of OLT Express in July 2012, who had also planned a number of international services.
• Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport handled 353,633 passengers last year.