Nonstop flight route between Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Cam Ranh, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR), Cam Ranh, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,322 miles (or 10,175 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 Lakenheath and Cam Ranh 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 Lakenheath and Cam Ranh 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 Lakenheath (LKZ):

• The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.
• The furthest airport from RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The work entailed removal of the existing runways and laying new ones comprising 12 inches of high-grade concrete.
• In 1941, hard runways were put down with the main runway, 04/22, being 2,000 yards, and the subsidiaries, 12/30 at 1,300 yards and 16/34 at 1,400 yards.
• By the time construction ended the war with Germany was over and RAF Lakenheath was put on a care and maintenance status.
• Aircraft of the 48th FW carry the tail code "LN".
• In early 1943, three T-2 hangars were erected on the north side of the airfield for glider storage, 40 Horsa Gliders being dispersed at Lakenheath during that year.
• Following French president Charles de Gaulle's insistence in 1959 that all non-French nuclear-capable forces should be withdrawn from his country, the USAF began a redeployment of its North American F-100-equipped units from France.
• Control of RAF Lakenheath was allocated to Third Air Force at South Ruislip Air Station, which had command of SAC B-29 operations in England.
• The 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath is the Statue of Liberty Wing, the only USAF wing with both a number and a name.

Facts about Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR):

• On May 19, 2004, after major reconstruction, the airport received its first commercial flight from Hanoi.
• Because of Cam Ranh International Airport's relatively low elevation of 40 feet, planes can take off or land at Cam Ranh International 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 "Cam Ranh International Airport", another name for CXR is "Sân bay Quốc tế Cam Ranh".
• The furthest airport from Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR) is Iberia Airport (IBP), which is nearly antipodal to Cam Ranh International Airport (meaning Cam Ranh International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Iberia Airport), and is located 12,340 miles (19,860 kilometers) away in Iberia, Peru.
• The closest airport to Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR) is Lien Khuong Airport (DLI), which is located 60 miles (96 kilometers) WSW of CXR.
• Cam Ranh International Airport (CXR) currently has only 1 runway.
• Cam Ranh Airport was built by the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and operated by the United States Air Force for military purposes as Cam Ranh Air Base.
• Cam Ranh International Airport handled 1,509,212 passengers last year.
• The airport resides at an elevation of 40 feet above mean sea level.