Nonstop flight route between High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Mirgorod, Ukraine:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF High Wycombe (HYC), High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom and Myrhorod Airport (MXR), Mirgorod, Ukraine would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,495 miles (or 2,405 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 RAF High Wycombe and Myrhorod Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about RAF High Wycombe (HYC):

• 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.
• 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 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.
• During the Second World War High Wycombe was used by the United States Army Air Forces.
• In 1958, Headquarters, 7th Air Division of the Strategic Air Command, supporting SAC operations in UK relocated to High Wycombe from RAF South Ruislip, and commanded all SAC operations until 1965.

Facts about Myrhorod Airport (MXR):

• Myrhorod Airport is an airport located approximately 5 kilometres southeast of Myrhorod, in the Poltava region of Ukraine.
• Myrhorod Airport (MXR) currently has only 1 runway.
• After the war, the airfield was rebuilt and used as a Soviet Air Forces base.
• Today it is home to the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, Air Command Centre, Ukrainian Air Force.
• The closest airport to Myrhorod Airport (MXR) is Kremenchuk (Velyka Kokhnivka) Airport (KHU), which is located 56 miles (90 kilometers) S of MXR.
• The furthest airport from Myrhorod Airport (MXR) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,965 miles (17,646 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In May 1944 the airfield was provided to the United States Army Air Forces as a heavy bomber staging field.
• In addition to being known as "Myrhorod Airport", another name for MXR is "Аеропорт «Миргород»".