Nonstop flight route between Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States and Bamyan, Afghanistan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States and Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر (BIN), Bamyan, Afghanistan would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,149 miles (or 11,506 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 Pope Field and Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر, 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 Pope Field and Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Pope Field (POB):

• The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
• Original operations included photographing terrain for mapping, carrying the mail, and spotting for artillery and forest fires.
• The United States Air Force 43d Airlift Group was activated at Pope on March 1, 2011.
• The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• The tempo of activities at Pope quickened with the outbreak of World War II.
• Lessons learned in the Gulf War in 1990-1991 led senior defense planners to conclude that the structure of the military establishment created numerous command and control problems.
• In 1918, Congress established Camp Bragg, an Army field artillery site named for the Confederate General Braxton Bragg.
• On September 21, 1954, Ninth AF turned Pope over to the 464th Troop Carrier Wing which transferred from Lawson AFB, Georgia.
• The 464th received the Mackay Trophy for the dramatic RED DRAGON/DRAGON ROUGE and BLACK DRAGON/DRAGON NOIR hostage rescue missions in the Congo in 1964.

Facts about Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر (BIN):

• In addition to being known as "Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر", other names for BIN include "Bamiyan Airport (Bamiyan)" and "KDH".
• The furthest airport from Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر (BIN) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,884 miles (19,125 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.
• The closest airport to Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر (BIN) is Kabul International Airport (KBL), which is located 81 miles (130 kilometers) ESE of BIN.
• Because of Bamyan Airport د بامیان هوائی ډګر's high elevation of 8,367 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BIN. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BIN a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.