Huntsville is the only city in the Southeast where a client has asked us, unprompted, about our failsafe behavior on GPS degradation. That is what happens when a metro area is built around Redstone Arsenal, Marshall Space Flight Center and several hundred aerospace and defense contractors: the audience understands what is flying over their heads, […]
Every other state’s planning guide starts with airspace. Alaska’s starts with the sun, because in Alaska the sun decides whether a show is possible at all. Anchorage sits near 61 degrees north, which means that from roughly late April to late August the sky never reaches true astronomical darkness. Fairbanks loses it earlier in spring […]
Arizona has two seasons that matter to anyone flying a drone show, and neither of them is the one on the calendar. There is the window from October through April, when the air is dry, the evenings are cool and the state is about as reliable as anywhere in North America for an outdoor night […]
In August in Arkansas, the air itself is a scattering medium. Dew points sit in the seventies for weeks, a soft haze settles into the river valleys after sundown, and a drone formation that looks razor-sharp in a 3D preview reads soft and halated through four hundred yards of wet air. Nobody warns clients about […]
