Nonstop flight route between Tekirdag, Turkey and Biloxi, Mississippi, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Çorlu Airport (TEQ), Tekirdag, Turkey and Keesler Air Force Base (BIX), Biloxi, Mississippi, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,061 miles (or 9,754 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 Çorlu Airport and Keesler Air Force 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 Çorlu Airport and Keesler Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Çorlu Airport (TEQ):

• The furthest airport from Çorlu Airport (TEQ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,186 miles (18,001 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Çorlu Airport (TEQ) is Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IST), which is located 48 miles (77 kilometers) ESE of TEQ.
• Çorlu Airport (TEQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Çorlu Airport", another name for TEQ is "Çorlu Havalimanı".
• Because of Çorlu Airport's relatively low elevation of 574 feet, planes can take off or land at Çorlu 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.

Facts about Keesler Air Force Base (BIX):

• The closest airport to Keesler Air Force Base (BIX) is Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport (GPT), which is located only 9 miles (14 kilometers) W of BIX.
• In early 1956, Keesler entered the missile age by opening a ground support training program for the Atlas missile.
• The furthest airport from Keesler Air Force Base (BIX) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is located 11,125 miles (17,904 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.
• On August 29, 2005 Keesler sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, which made its third Gulf Coast landfall as a Category 3 storm approximately 30 miles west.
• In addition to being known as "Keesler Air Force Base", another name for BIX is "Keesler AFB".
• Other organizations assigned to Keesler AFB include the 45th Airlift Squadron, a geographically separated unit of the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas.
• During the early 1960s, Keesler lost many of its airborne training courses but Keesler still remained the largest training base throughout the 1970s.
• The Tuskegee Airmen were trained at Keesler.