Nonstop flight route between High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Bozeman, Montana, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF High Wycombe (HYC), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN), Bozeman, Montana, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,538 miles (or 7,303 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 Bozeman Yellowstone International 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 Bozeman Yellowstone International 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):

• 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.
• The closest airport to RAF High Wycombe (HYC) is RAF Benson (BEX), which is located only 13 miles (22 kilometers) WSW of HYC.
• The Ministry of Defence and Serco Group agreed a ten-year contract in February 2010 whereby Serco would provide support services at RAF High Wycombe and RAF Halton, including leisure services, general engineering and catering.
• To preserve secrecy, the station was known as "Southdown" in March 1940, as part of a directive by the Air Ministry.
• RAF High Wycombe is situated roughly three miles from the town of High Wycombe over three sites - No 1 Site houses the Command HQ and the Combined Air Operations Centre, No 2 Site houses the officers' mess, while No 3 site is the domestic site, airmen and NCO's quarters, MT yard, PT flight and Supply Flight.
• 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 motto of RAF High Wycombe in Latin is 'Non Sibi', which translates as 'not for ourselves'.

Facts about Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN):

• Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) has 3 runways.
• Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport handled 884,660 passengers last year.
• In 2011 a terminal expansion designed by Prugh & Lenon Architects opened, adding three gates and more retail concessions.
• http://www.bozemanairport.com/pub/documents/Flight%20Schedules/May%202014.pdf
• Air Traffic Control handled 73,749 aircraft operations in 2011, up 1.8% over 2010.
• Because of Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport's high elevation of 4,473 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BZN. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BZN a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) is Mission Field (LVM), which is located 34 miles (55 kilometers) E of BZN.
• The furthest airport from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,612 miles (17,078 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.