Nonstop flight route between Universal City, Texas, United States and Yibin, Sichuan, China:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (RND), Universal City, Texas, United States and Yibin Caiba Airport (YBP), Yibin, Sichuan, China would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,134 miles (or 13,091 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 Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio and Yibin Caiba 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 Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio and Yibin Caiba Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (RND):

• The furthest airport from Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (RND) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,103 miles (17,869 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (RND) is San Antonio International Airport (SAT), which is located only 12 miles (19 kilometers) W of RND.
• Randolph AFB is part of Joint Base San Antonio, an amalgamation of the United States Army Fort Sam Houston, the United States Air Force Randolph Air Force Base and Lackland Air Force Base, which were merged on 1 October 2010.
• In addition to being known as "Randolph Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio", another name for RND is "Randolph AFB".
• The Army Air Forces also planned to return basic pilot training to Randolph on 1 February 1946.
• On 1 April 1952, the Air Force established the Crew Training Air Force with its headquarters at Randolph to administer nine bases and combat crew training wings, including the 3510th.
• General Lahm established the Air Corps Training Center in August 1926 and set up its headquarters at Duncan Field, next to Kelly Field, Texas.
• Randolph AFB is named after Captain William Millican Randolph, a native of Austin, who was on the base naming committee at the time of his death in a crash.

Facts about Yibin Caiba Airport (YBP):

• In addition to being known as "Yibin Caiba Airport", other names for YBP include "宜宾菜坝机场" and "Yibīn Càibà Jīchǎng".
• The closest airport to Yibin Caiba Airport (YBP) is Luzhou Lantian Airport (LZO), which is located 51 miles (83 kilometers) E of YBP.
• The furthest airport from Yibin Caiba Airport (YBP) is La Florida Airport (LSC), which is nearly antipodal to Yibin Caiba Airport (meaning Yibin Caiba Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from La Florida Airport), and is located 12,169 miles (19,584 kilometers) away in La Serena, Chile.
• Yibin Caiba Airport handled 326,000 passengers last year.