Nonstop flight route between Lubang, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines and Tonopah, Nevada, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lubang Airport (LBX), Lubang, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines and Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD), Tonopah, Nevada, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,310 miles (or 11,765 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 Lubang Airport and Tonopah Test Range 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 Lubang Airport and Tonopah Test Range Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Lubang Airport (LBX):

• Because of Lubang Airport's relatively low elevation of 43 feet, planes can take off or land at Lubang 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 furthest airport from Lubang Airport (LBX) is Brigadeiro Camarão Airport (BVH), which is nearly antipodal to Lubang Airport (meaning Lubang Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Brigadeiro Camarão Airport), and is located 12,355 miles (19,884 kilometers) away in Vilhena, Rondônia, Brazil.
• Lubang Airport (LBX) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Lubang Airport", another name for LBX is "Paliparan ng Lubang".
• The closest airport to Lubang Airport (LBX) is Mamburao Airport (MBO), which is located 56 miles (90 kilometers) SE of LBX.

Facts about Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD):

• Over the course of its history U.S.
• The assets of the squadron could not go to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, and the fate of them remains in some cases, still classified.
• All the models had quirks.
• Beginning in October 1979 Tonopah Test Range Airport was reconstructed and expanded.
• The furthest airport from Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,207 miles (18,036 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• On 12 August 1968, the IDF obtained two Syrian Air Force MiG-17F fighters that had gotten lost during a training flight and landed inadvertently at Besert Landing Field, Israel.
• The closest airport to Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Tonopah Airport (TPH), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) NW of XSD.
• The advent of Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War in March of 1965 led to the introduction of the obsolete and subsonic MiG-17 and the supersonic MiG-21 by the North Vietnamese Air Force being pitted against U.S.