Originally Posted by
Danny42C
Chistopher Columbus
Didn't know where he was going when he set off.
Didn't know where he was when he got there.
Didn't know where he'd been when he got back.
Wherefore Christopher Columbus is known as the "Great Navigator".
[Trad.]
Our tradition was that Ferdinand Magellan was "the great navigator" for having circumcised the globe.
The sarcastic earning of that moniker indicated navigation of less than great quality.
Magellan was the call sign assigned to one of my squadron mates who flew to Bimini rather than Andros Island for an ASW exercise.
His defense, per the standard, was that "we weren't lost, but we
were temporarily disoriented -- and then fuel state became a problem."