Nonstop flight route between St Athan, Wales, United Kingdom and Can Tho, Vietnam:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between MoD St Athan (DGX), St Athan, Wales, United Kingdom and Can Tho International Airport (VCA), Can Tho, Vietnam would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,474 miles (or 10,419 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 MoD St Athan and Can Tho International 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 MoD St Athan and Can Tho International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | DGX / EGDX |
Airport Name: | MoD St Athan |
Location: | St Athan, Wales, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°24'16"N by 3°26'8"W |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
Airport Type: | Military |
Elevation: | 163 feet (50 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from DGX |
More Information: | DGX Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | VCA / VVCT |
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Location: | Can Tho, Vietnam |
GPS Coordinates: | 10°5'7"N by 105°42'42"E |
Operator/Owner: | Southern Airports Authority |
Elevation: | 9 feet (3 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from VCA |
More Information: | VCA Maps & Info |
Facts about MoD St Athan (DGX):
- MoD St Athan (DGX) currently has only 1 runway.
- The training to be carried out at St Athan was to be specialist phase 2 and phase 3 engineering courses of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.
- The station officially opened as RAF St Athan on 1 September 1938 and the first unit to take up residence was No 4 School of Technical Training.
- In March 2004, however, DARA announced the loss of 550 jobs at St Athan as part of streamlining to make DARA more efficient and better able to compete with the private sector for lucrative aircraft repair contracts, but also because they lost out to a direct RAF bid for a contract to upgrade the air force's fleet of ageing Harrier jump jet aircraft.
- Because of MoD St Athan's relatively low elevation of 163 feet, planes can take off or land at MoD St Athan 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.
- Just before 1100 GMT on 11 February 2009, two Grob Tutor aircraft flying out of St Athan were involved in a mid-air collision in which two Air Training Corps cadets and their instructors, both RAF pilots, died.
- The furthest airport from MoD St Athan (DGX) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,960 miles (19,248 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
- The closest airport to MoD St Athan (DGX) is Cardiff Airport (CWL), which is located only 4 miles (6 kilometers) E of DGX.
- RAF St Athan was also home for the Royal Air Force Administrative Apprentice Training School.
Facts about Can Tho International Airport (VCA):
- Trà Nóc Airport was originally constructed during the Vietnam War in 1965 by United States Air Force civil engineering units as a military airfield.
- The closest airport to Can Tho International Airport (VCA) is Rach Gia Airport (VKG), which is located 40 miles (65 kilometers) WSW of VCA.
- In addition to being known as "Can Tho International Airport", another name for VCA is "Sân bay Quốc tế Cần Thơ".
- Because of Can Tho International Airport's relatively low elevation of 9 feet, planes can take off or land at Can Tho International 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 furthest airport from Can Tho International Airport (VCA) is FAP Captain David Abenzur Rengifo International Airport (PCL), which is nearly antipodal to Can Tho International Airport (meaning Can Tho International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from FAP Captain David Abenzur Rengifo International Airport), and is located 12,317 miles (19,823 kilometers) away in Pucallpa, Peru.
- Can Tho International Airport (VCA) currently has only 1 runway.