Nonstop flight route between High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Crescent City, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF High Wycombe (HYC), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Del Norte County Regional Airport (CEC), Crescent City, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,144 miles (or 8,279 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 Del Norte County Regional 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 Del Norte County Regional 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 location of the station was originally suggested by Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott when the Air Ministry was seeking a new, secure, site for Bomber Command away from London.
• From 1983 to 1984 there was a peace camp protesting against the building of a bunker there at that time to house RAF Strike Command.
• Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, the Air Ministry sought a safe location for RAF Bomber Command away from London.
• 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 actor David Jason officially opened the station's new welfare centre, named after Wing Commander Alan Oakeshott, in July 2011.
• RAF High Wycombe is a Royal Air Force station, situated in the village of Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England.

Facts about Del Norte County Regional Airport (CEC):

• The airport covers 544 acres at an elevation of 61 feet.
• SkyWest Airlines flies Embraer EMB-120s to Eureka/Arcata, Sacramento and San Francisco.
• The furthest airport from Del Norte County Regional Airport (CEC) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,175 miles (17,985 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 12,541 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 11,490 in 2009 and 14,341 in 2010.
• Del Norte County Regional Airport (CEC) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Del Norte County Regional Airport (CEC) is Brookings Airport (BOK), which is located 21 miles (33 kilometers) N of CEC.
• Because of Del Norte County Regional Airport's relatively low elevation of 61 feet, planes can take off or land at Del Norte County Regional 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.
• In addition to being known as "Del Norte County Regional Airport", another name for CEC is "Jack McNamara Field".