Nonstop flight route between Udaipur, India and Georgetown, Ascension Island, Saint Helena:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Udaipur Airport (UDR), Udaipur, India and RAF Ascension (ASI), Georgetown, Ascension Island, Saint Helena would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,341 miles (or 10,204 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 Udaipur Airport and RAF Ascension, 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 Udaipur Airport and RAF Ascension. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Udaipur Airport (UDR):

• Scenes from the movie The Darjeeling Limited were shot here.
• The closest airport to Udaipur Airport (UDR) is Jodhpur Airport (JDH), which is located 125 miles (201 kilometers) NNW of UDR.
• In addition to being known as "Udaipur Airport", other names for UDR include "Dabok Airport", "महाराणा प्रताप हवाई अड्डा" and "Maharana Pratap Airport".
• Udaipur Airport (UDR) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Udaipur Airport (UDR) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is nearly antipodal to Udaipur Airport (meaning Udaipur Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mataveri International Airport), and is located 12,166 miles (19,579 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.

Facts about RAF Ascension (ASI):

• The NASA Tracking Station at Devil's Ashpit and the Cable & Wireless Earth Station at Donkey Plain were built in the "mid-sixties" for space operations and communications, including the latter's use for transmitting "microwave borne data via the Early Bird Satellite back to the NASA facility at Andover, Maine.
• The closest airport to RAF Ascension (ASI) is Sasstown Airport (SAZ), which is located 965 miles (1,553 kilometers) NNE of ASI.
• The furthest airport from RAF Ascension (ASI) is Ujae Airport (UJE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Ascension (meaning RAF Ascension is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ujae Airport), and is located 12,370 miles (19,907 kilometers) away in Ujae Atoll, Marshall Islands.
• RAF Ascension Island was re-garrisoned by the RAF in 1982 and used extensively as a staging base during the Falklands War.
• Wideawake Airfield was a US installation built in 1943 by arrangement with the British government.
• The RAF presence on Ascension is backed up by United States Air Force personnel, who contribute a similar number of service personnel to ensure the effective running of the station, under the command of Captain Eduard Rodriguez, who is responsible to the RAF Station Commander.
• In addition to being known as "RAF Ascension", another name for ASI is "Wideawake Airbase/Field".