Nonstop flight route between Tame, Arauca, Colombia and Fairford, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (TME), Tame, Arauca, Colombia and RAF Fairford (FFD), Fairford, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,016 miles (or 8,072 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 Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport and RAF Fairford, 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 Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport and RAF Fairford. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (TME):

• The closest airport to Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (TME) is Los Colonizadores Airport (RVE), which is located 34 miles (54 kilometers) NNW of TME.
• The furthest airport from Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (TME) is Penggung Airport/Chakrabhuwana Airport (CBN), which is nearly antipodal to Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (meaning Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Penggung Airport/Chakrabhuwana Airport), and is located 12,407 miles (19,968 kilometers) away in Cirebon, Java, Indonesia.
• Gabriel Vargas Santos Airport (TME) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about RAF Fairford (FFD):

• The closest airport to RAF Fairford (FFD) is RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) ENE of FFD.
• The runway was completed in 1953, and served as a forward airbase for the first Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.
• Fairford was chosen in 1969 as the British test centre for the Concorde aircraft, which continued until 1977.
• The furthest airport from RAF Fairford (FFD) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,898 miles (19,148 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• Operations staff and maintenance personnel were permanently assigned, but aircraft, aircrews and crew chiefs were temporarily assigned to the 11th Strategic Group for the European Tanker Task Force on rotation.
• RAF Lyneham's position as the primary tactical transport base for the RAF was emphasised in February 1971 when Nos.
• Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England which is currently a standby airfield and therefore not in everyday use.
• On 14 January 2004, the 420th Air Base Group was established at RAF Fairford to improve the control of its geographically separated units that had been aligned beneath the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall.