article_snippet.sent: And for a pilot, the sky is full of aerial milestones called waypoints, with names usually comprising five capital letters.
article_snippet.sent: These often relate directly to the place below, so above Boston in Vanhoenacker’s home state, there is the waypoint LBSTA, referring to the region’s prized shellfish, and another, NIMOY, after one of the city’s more notable sons, the late actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr Spock in Star Trek.
article_snippet.sent: Above St Louis, Missouri, are the waypoints ANNII and LENXX.