Nonstop flight route between Xangongo, Angola and Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (XGN), Xangongo, Angola and RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,854 miles (or 7,812 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 Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport and RAF Mildenhall, 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 Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport and RAF Mildenhall. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (XGN):

• Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (XGN) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (XGN) is Lubango Mukanka Airport (SDD), which is located 156 miles (252 kilometers) NW of XGN.
• In addition to being known as "Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport", another name for XGN is "Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (Xangongo)".
• The furthest airport from Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (XGN) is Johnston Atoll Airport (JON), which is nearly antipodal to Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport (meaning Vila Roçadas/Xangongo Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Johnston Atoll Airport), and is located 12,139 miles (19,536 kilometers) away in Johnston Atoll, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.

Facts about RAF Mildenhall (MHZ):

• The 95 RS supports RC-135, OC-135, and E-4 missions when theatre deployed.
• In August 1979, the 6954th Security Squadron was designated as the 6954th Electronic Security Squadron to coincide with the designation of United States Air Force Security Service as the Electronic Security Command.
• The furthest airport from RAF Mildenhall (MHZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,829 miles (19,037 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to RAF Mildenhall (MHZ) is RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) NE of MHZ.
• Placed on standby status after the war, it was reopened by the Royal Air Force and became a USAF-RAF joint operation base on 11 July 1950.
• RAF Mildenhall and its sister base RAF Lakenheath have the largest United States Air Force presence in the United Kingdom.
• The host unit at Mildenhall is the 100th Air Refueling Wing, which deploys aircraft for and manages the European Tanker Task Force, a rotational force which provides air refuelling to US and NATO aircraft in the European Theater.