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Date: 2016-07-21

Tags: trivia air-travel

None of the maps or data presented here should be used for actual navigation

At lunch yesterday some coworkers and I got onto the topic flight waypoints and I was reminded of funny air waypoints. While waiting for some code to run, I decided to look up some for Pittsburgh. I found the STARs and IAPs and saw obvious gems like TERBL TOWEL, MYRON COPPE, PENGN GUINZ, RIVERZ, and HEINZ. I knew I had to look deeper! I had some trouble finding a list of waypoints, but stumbled upon fplan and its 2015 database. With a little `sed` magic, I was able to extract a file qgis could read. I quickly found a handful more!

I attempted to catalouge those as well as some interesting names. The theory on why each of the blue beacons is named as it is are my own. If you have better data or a good theory for some others, let me know!

Funnly Named VOR s Interestingly Named VOR s Other VOR s