Nonstop flight route between Glendale, Arizona, United States and Franca, São Paulo, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field (LUF), Glendale, Arizona, United States and Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC), Franca, São Paulo, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,680 miles (or 9,142 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 Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field and Ten. Lund Presetto State 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 Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field and Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field (LUF):

• In addition to being known as "Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field", another name for LUF is "Luke AFB".
• The 56th FW is composed of four groups, 27 squadrons, including six training squadrons.
• Ground school, or classroom training for the advanced flying course, varied from about 100 to 130 hours and was intermingled with flight time in the aircraft.
• By 7 February 1944, pilots at Luke had achieved a million hours of flying time.
• The furthest airport from Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field (LUF) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,450 miles (18,426 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The base population includes about 7500 military members and 15,000 family members.
• F-84F's replaced the straight-winged earlier models in the original four squadrons by the end of 1956, giving the wing seven squadrons of twenty-one aircraft each, or about 150 aircraft.
• The closest airport to Luke Air Force BaseLuke Field (LUF) is Phoenix Goodyear Airport (GYR), which is located only 7 miles (12 kilometers) S of LUF.
• Luke Air Force Base was named after Second Lieutenant Frank Luke.

Facts about Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC):

• Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport handled 2,105 passengers last year.
• It is operated by DAESP.
• Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
• In addition to being known as "Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport", another name for FRC is "Aeroporto Estadual Ten. Lund Presetto".
• The closest airport to Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) is Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport (RAO), which is located 46 miles (73 kilometers) SW of FRC.
• Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (FRC) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport (meaning Ten. Lund Presetto State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,064 miles (19,414 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.