Nonstop flight route between Rouen, France and Mountain View, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Rouen Airport (URO), Rouen, France and Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ), Mountain View, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,510 miles (or 8,868 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 Rouen Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield, 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 Rouen Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Rouen Airport (URO):

• The closest airport to Rouen Airport (URO) is Base Aérienne 105 Évreux (BA 105)Évreux-Fauville Air BaseAdvanced Landing Ground (ALG) B-28 (EVX), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) S of URO.
• The furthest airport from Rouen Airport (URO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Rouen Airport (meaning Rouen Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,035 miles (19,369 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Rouen Airport (URO) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Rouen Airport's relatively low elevation of 512 feet, planes can take off or land at Rouen 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.
• In addition to being known as "Rouen Airport", another name for URO is "Aéroport de Rouen - Vallée de Seine".

Facts about Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ):

• Because of Moffett Federal Airfield's relatively low elevation of 32 feet, planes can take off or land at Moffett Federal Airfield 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.
• The closest airport to Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (PAO), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NW of NUQ.
• In August 1986 during the NAS Moffett Field Airshow, the Italian demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, and the German Navy's F-104 flight demonstration team, the Vikings, performed in front of the crowd.
• In August 2008, the Navy proposed simply stripping the toxic coating from the hangar and leaving the skeleton after spraying it with a preservative.
• The airport is near the south end of San Francisco Bay, northwest of San Jose.
• The naval air station was authorized by an Act of Congress, signed by President Herbert Hoover on 12 February 1931.
• The furthest airport from Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,365 miles (18,290 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) has 2 runways.
• The US Navy is evaluating options for remediating the PCBs, lead and asbestos, and NASA is evaluating options for reuse of the hangar.