{"id":246,"date":"2015-05-15T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=246"},"modified":"2015-05-15T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T08:37:02","slug":"bag-of-aerial-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/bag-of-aerial-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag of aerial words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FlightAware_SFO_DP_SSTIK-ONE-RNAV.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FlightAware_SFO_DP_SSTIK-ONE-RNAV.png\" alt=\"FlightAware_SFO_DP_SSTIK ONE (RNAV)\" width=\"387\" height=\"594\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FlightAware_SFO_DP_SSTIK-ONE-RNAV.png 387w, https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FlightAware_SFO_DP_SSTIK-ONE-RNAV-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Appearing in the New York Times, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/05\/14\/opinion\/14-in-flight-mark-vanhoenacker.html\">posting<\/a> by Mark Vanhoenacker about flight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe world\u2019s airspace is divided. There are various sorts of divisions. To the pilots who cross them every day, their borders form what we may regard as the countries of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] An airplane typically navigates through sky countries along a route composed of a few radio beacons and many waypoints. Waypoints are defined by coordinates or their bearing and distance from a beacon, and by a name, which typically takes the form of a five-letter capitalized word \u2014 EVUKI, JETSA, SABER \u2014 that\u2019s pronounceable and distinct to controllers and pilots regardless of their first language. Waypoint names are the sky\u2019s audible currency of place, atomized and distinct.<\/p>\n<p>Many waypoint names are random, but others are not.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=9547125\">Commenting on Hacker News<\/a>, <em>therockspush<\/em> notes how the waypoints around San Francisco reflect underlying Silicon Valley, with waypoints named: UTOOB, NTELL, EBAYE, and CISKO. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flightaware.com\/resources\/airport\/KSFO\/DP\/SSTIK+ONE+%28RNAV%29\">Image source on flightware.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing in the New York Times, a posting by Mark Vanhoenacker about flight. The world\u2019s airspace is divided. There are various sorts of divisions. To the pilots who cross them every day, their borders form what we may regard as the countries of the sky. [&#8230;] An airplane typically navigates through sky countries along a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[38,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}