Nonstop flight route between Mountain Home, Idaho, United States and Terre-de-Haut Island, Les Saintes, Guadeloupe:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Mountain Home Air Force Base (MUO), Mountain Home, Idaho, United States and Les Saintes Airport (LSS), Terre-de-Haut Island, Les Saintes, Guadeloupe would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,686 miles (or 5,932 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 Mountain Home Air Force Base and Les Saintes 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 Mountain Home Air Force Base and Les Saintes Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Mountain Home Air Force Base (MUO):

• In addition to being known as "Mountain Home Air Force Base", another name for MUO is "Mountain Home AFB".
• The furthest airport from Mountain Home Air Force Base (MUO) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,858 miles (17,474 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Operations continued unchanged for several years.
• Beginning in 1968, the 67th also conducted tactical fighter operations with the addition of a squadron of F-4D Phantom IIs.
• The base remained inactive for over three years, until December 1948, when the newly independent U.S.
• The closest airport to Mountain Home Air Force Base (MUO) is Boise Airport (BOI), which is located 40 miles (64 kilometers) NNW of MUO.
• Part of the base is a census-designated place.
• ARCS formed the 580th, 581st, and 582nd Air Resupply and Communications Wings at the base, equipping with wings with C-119 Flying Boxcar, B-29 Superfortress, and SA-16 Albatross aircraft and trained to support covert special operations.

Facts about Les Saintes Airport (LSS):

• Les Saintes Airport (LSS) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Les Saintes Airport (LSS) is Broome International Airport (BME), which is nearly antipodal to Les Saintes Airport (meaning Les Saintes Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Broome International Airport), and is located 12,147 miles (19,548 kilometers) away in Broome, Western Australia, Australia.
• In addition to being known as "Les Saintes Airport", another name for LSS is "Aérodrome de Terre-de-Haut".
• The closest airport to Les Saintes Airport (LSS) is Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport (PTP), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) N of LSS.
• Because of Les Saintes Airport's relatively low elevation of 42 feet, planes can take off or land at Les Saintes 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.