Delaware’s event year is decided at the beach. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Route 1 south of Milford carries the entire state’s summer economy, and Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany and Fenwick Island absorb a population that bears no relation to the off-season census. That is where the crowds are, that is where the budgets are, […]
Downtown Denver is a mile up, which everybody knows, and under one of the more complicated pieces of controlled airspace in the Mountain West, which almost nobody outside aviation does. Between Denver International to the northeast, Centennial to the south and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan to the northwest, there is very little of this city where […]
There is an international border running through downtown Detroit, and it is roughly 2,000 feet from the riverfront. The boundary between the United States and Canada follows the Detroit River channel, which means a show staged at Hart Plaza or along the RiverWalk has Windsor, Ontario directly across the water and Canadian airspace beginning mid-river. […]
Stand on the roof of a downtown El Paso hotel and the lights of Ciudad Juarez start about a mile away and keep going to the horizon. There is no buffer. The international border runs through the middle of a single continuous urban area of more than two million people, and for a drone show […]
Florida gets struck by lightning more than any other state, and the corridor from Tampa Bay across to the Space Coast is the most strike-dense ground in the country. That is not a trivia fact when you are planning an outdoor show. It is the reason a Florida run of show needs a hold window […]