Nonstop flight route between Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Guanambi Airport (GNM), Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,276 miles (or 8,491 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 Guanambi 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 Guanambi 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):

• In response to the threat by the Soviet Union, by the 1948 Berlin blockade, President Truman decided to realign USAFE into a permanent combat-capable force.
• Taking part in more than 350 operations, more than half mine-laying, 149 Squadron had one of the lowest percentage loss rates of all Stirling squadrons.
• 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.
• 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.
• The first use of Lakenheath Warren as a Royal Flying Corps airfield was in World War I, when the area was made into a bombing and ground-attack range for aircraft flying from elsewhere in the area.
• Many SAC Squadrons had aircraft at RAF Lakenheath on a transitotry basis without any recorded deployment to the base.
• The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.

Facts about Guanambi Airport (GNM):

• The closest airport to Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Bom Jesus da Lapa Airport (LAZ), which is located 79 miles (127 kilometers) NW of GNM.
• Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
• In addition to being known as "Guanambi Airport", another name for GNM is "Aeroporto de Guanambi".
• The airport is located 4 km from Guanambi city centre.
• Guanambi Airport (GNM) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is nearly antipodal to Guanambi Airport (meaning Guanambi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Yap International Airport), and is located 12,107 miles (19,484 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.