well, here in the wild vastness of the skies, there was a time when pilots, much like the cowpoke of the prairie, had to make their own trails. they'd say, "do not follow the routes charted earlier; they're just an example." instead, they'd redeploy their crafts on the sly, using the stars as their guides, creating new paths across the heavens with a freedom and a bravado that left folks on the ground looking up in awe.