Nonstop flight route between High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Zambezi, Zambia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF High Wycombe (HYC), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Zambezi Airport (BBZ), Zambezi, Zambia would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,729 miles (or 7,610 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 RAF High Wycombe and Zambezi 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 RAF High Wycombe and Zambezi Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about RAF High Wycombe (HYC):

• The furthest airport from RAF High Wycombe (HYC) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,867 miles (19,098 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF High Wycombe (HYC) is RAF Benson (BEX), which is located only 13 miles (22 kilometers) WSW of HYC.
• The site is a non-flying station and was home to RAF Strike Command before it became part of the newly formed RAF Air Command on 1 April 2007.
• An Armed Forces Community Covenant between the station and Wycombe District Council was signed on 16 April 2012, designed to strengthen the links between the military and the local community.
• The motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.
• Operationally during the Cold War the Director UKWMO would have been located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command within Strike Command's Operations Centre nuclear bunker at RAF High Wycombe to instigate the national Four minute air raid warnings, with the Deputy Director located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being "elsewhere in the UK", but has since been revealed as being at Goosnargh near Preston within the UKWMO Western Sector nuclear bunker.

Facts about Zambezi Airport (BBZ):

• The closest airport to Zambezi Airport (BBZ) is Lukulu Airport (LXU), which is located 59 miles (95 kilometers) S of BBZ.
• Zambezi Airport (BBZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Zambezi Airport (BBZ) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Zambezi Airport (meaning Zambezi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,005 miles (19,319 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.