Ohio gives you three metropolitan markets that behave like three different states. Cleveland sits on Lake Erie under Class B airspace, next to a lake that writes its own weather without consulting anybody. Columbus is flat, central, and organized around a university whose football stadium holds more people than most Ohio cities. Cincinnati is pressed […]
Oklahoma City is ringed by airports. Will Rogers World sits six miles southwest of downtown, Wiley Post is out on the northwest side, Tinker Air Force Base occupies a large footprint to the southeast in Midwest City, and there are smaller fields west and north of that. The gaps between their airspace are narrower than […]
The Storm Prediction Center is in Norman, which tells you most of what you need to know about scheduling an outdoor event in Oklahoma. The national office that forecasts tornadoes for the entire United States is here because this is where the weather is. From April through June, the supercells tend to fire in the […]
If you want to understand drone shows in Oregon, start with the Columbia River Gorge. The pressure gradient between the cool, damp Willamette Valley and the hot high desert east of the Cascades turns that canyon into a wind tunnel most summer afternoons, which is why Hood River is a world-class windsurfing town and why […]
Pennsylvania behaves like two states with a very large rural buffer in between. Philadelphia faces the Atlantic seaboard and plans events like a northeastern city. Pittsburgh faces the Ohio Valley and plans them like a midwestern one. Between them are three hundred miles of ridge and valley, farm country and small boroughs where the airspace […]