Nonstop flight route between Wallops Island, Virginia, United States and Hohenems, Austria:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL), Wallops Island, Virginia, United States and Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (HOH), Hohenems, Austria would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,157 miles (or 6,690 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 Wallops Flight Facility Airport and Hohenems-Dornbirn 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 Wallops Flight Facility Airport and Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL):

• Because of Wallops Flight Facility Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Wallops Flight Facility 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.
• The WFF Main Base is located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on the Delmarva Peninsula about 5 miles west of Chincoteague, Virginia.
• In 1998, the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, later joined by Maryland, built the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops on land leased from NASA.
• The Wallops mobile range instrumentation includes telemetry, radar, command and power systems.
• The furthest airport from Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,785 miles (18,965 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Major Wallops facilities include FAA-certified runways.
• The closest airport to Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Accomack County Airport (MFV), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) SW of WAL.
• The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and at sea.

Facts about Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (HOH):

• The furthest airport from Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (HOH) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (meaning Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,050 miles (19,393 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (HOH) is St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport (ACH), which is located only 10 miles (15 kilometers) NW of HOH.
• Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (HOH) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport", other names for HOH include "Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (Dornbirn)" and "Flugplatz Hohenems-Dornbirn".