Nonstop flight route between Lublin, Poland and Pituffik, Greenland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lublin Airport (LUZ), Lublin, Poland and Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,833 miles (or 4,559 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 Lublin Airport and Thule Air Base, 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 Lublin Airport and Thule Air Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Lublin Airport (LUZ):

• Lublin Airport handled 189,442 passengers last year.
• The furthest airport from Lublin Airport (LUZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,410 miles (18,363 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Because of Lublin Airport's relatively low elevation of 666 feet, planes can take off or land at Lublin 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 closest airport to Lublin Airport (LUZ) is Biała Podlaska Airport (BXP), which is located 56 miles (90 kilometers) NNE of LUZ.
• In 1949 the Polish government made a decision to build an aviation factory in Świdnik, located next to the airfield.
• The airport is located close to Expressway S17 that is currently under construction, with the section running by the airport scheduled to be completed in mid-2014.
• Lublin Airport (LUZ) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Lublin Airport", another name for LUZ is "Port Lotniczy Lublin".

Facts about Thule Air Base (THU):

• On 21 January 1968, a B-52G Stratofortress from the 380th Strategic Aerospace Wing, Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York on a secret airborne nuclear alert crashed and burned on the ice near Thule Air Base.
• The furthest airport from Thule Air Base (THU) is Hobart International Airport (HBA), which is located 9,883 miles (15,905 kilometers) away in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
• Knud Rasmussen was the first to recognize the Pituffik plain as ideal for an airport.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• Thule Air Base has served as the regional hub for nearby installations, including Cape Atholl, Camp Century, Camp TUTO, Sites 1 and 2, P-Mountain, J-Site, North and South Mountains, and a research rocket firing site.
• A board of Air Force officers headed by Gordon P.
• Late 1950s the DEW 1 to 4 where build as "weather stations", Thule Air Base would act as an supply station for the DYE bases.