Nonstop flight route between Agana, Guam and Hua Hin, Thailand:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Andersen Air Force Base (UAM), Agana, Guam and Hua Hin Airport (HHQ), Hua Hin, Thailand would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,023 miles (or 4,865 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 Andersen Air Force Base and Hua Hin 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 Andersen Air Force Base and Hua Hin Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Andersen Air Force Base (UAM):

• In support of Operation Arc Light, SAC activated the 4133rd Bombardment Wing on 1 February 1966, though the 3960th Strategic Wing, originally activated in 1955 as the 3960th Air Base Wing, continued as the base's host wing until it was inactivated and replaced by the 43rd Strategic Wing on 1 April 1970.
• The closest airport to Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Guam International Airport (GUM), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SW of UAM.
• In 1951, the Strategic Air Command chose several overseas bases to support rotational unit deployments of its bombers from stateside bases, starting with B-29 Superfortress units and later including Convair B-36, B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress bombers, and KB-29 refueling tankers.
• The furthest airport from Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho) (SSA), which is nearly antipodal to Andersen Air Force Base (meaning Andersen Air Force Base is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho)), and is located 12,214 miles (19,656 kilometers) away in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
• Guam was considered as being ideal to establish air bases to launch B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands.
• The Strategic Air Command continued its 90-day unit rotational training program, and began to take over control over the base from the FEAF.

Facts about Hua Hin Airport (HHQ):

• The furthest airport from Hua Hin Airport (HHQ) is Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), which is nearly antipodal to Hua Hin Airport (meaning Hua Hin Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Jorge Chávez International Airport), and is located 12,234 miles (19,689 kilometers) away in Callao (near Lima), Peru.
• Hua Hin Airport (HHQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Hua Hin Airport", another name for HHQ is "ท่าอากาศยานหัวหิน".
• The closest airport to Hua Hin Airport (HHQ) is U-Tapao-Rayong-Pattaya International Airport (UTP), which is located 71 miles (114 kilometers) E of HHQ.
• Because of Hua Hin Airport's relatively low elevation of 62 feet, planes can take off or land at Hua Hin 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.