The Cumberland River makes a hard bend right through the middle of downtown Nashville, and that bend is the reason this city is unusually good for drone shows. You get a wide, dark, obstruction-free flight area with crowd space on both banks, a skyline on one side and Nissan Stadium on the other, and a […]
Every spring, somewhere around half a million sandhill cranes stage along an 80-mile stretch of the Platte River between Grand Island and Kearney. It is one of the largest bird concentrations on the continent, it runs roughly from February into early April, and it is a real planning fact for anyone putting aircraft in the […]
Nevada is the driest state in the country and roughly four fifths of it belongs to the federal government. Those two facts shape everything about putting a drone light show in the air here. The dryness buys you an absurd number of usable nights: outside of a few monsoon-fed afternoons in late summer, the sky […]
Mount Washington holds one of the most famous wind records ever measured at a surface station, and the summit observatory has made a brand out of being the worst weather in the world. That is 6,288 feet of mountain sitting at the junction of three major storm tracks, and it is the reason nobody who […]
In most states the first question about a drone show is the airspace. In New Jersey it is the ground. This is the most densely populated state in the country, and the scarce resource is not sky, it is a flat, securable, unoccupied piece of earth with a few hundred feet of buffer around it […]