Nonstop flight route between Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Okushiri, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Japan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Okushiri Airport (OIR), Okushiri, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,462 miles (or 8,791 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 Okushiri 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 Okushiri 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):

• RAF Lakenheath, and nearby, RAF Mildenhall, are the two main U.S.
• 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.
• By the time construction ended the war with Germany was over and RAF Lakenheath was put on a care and maintenance status.
• The work entailed removal of the existing runways and laying new ones comprising 12 inches of high-grade concrete.
• The increasing tension of the Cold War lead to a re-evaluation of these deployments, and by 1953 SAC bombers began to move its heavy bomb groups further west, behind RAF fighter forces, to RAF Brize Norton, RAF Greenham Common, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Fairford, while its shorter-range B-47 were sent to East Anglia.

Facts about Okushiri Airport (OIR):

• In addition to being known as "Okushiri Airport", other names for OIR include "奥尻空港" and "Okushiri Kūkō".
• Because of Okushiri Airport's relatively low elevation of 161 feet, planes can take off or land at Okushiri 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 Okushiri Airport (OIR) is Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport (PDP), which is located 11,508 miles (18,520 kilometers) away in Maldonado/Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay.
• Okushiri Airport (OIR) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Okushiri Airport (OIR) is Hakodate Airport (HKD), which is located 74 miles (120 kilometers) ESE of OIR.