Twice a day, a handful of drovers walk a herd of Texas Longhorns down Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards. It is a tourist event, and it is also a reminder that Fort Worth has live cattle, working rodeo arenas and a permanent horse population inside its most requested entertainment district. That is not a detail […]
Hartsfield-Jackson handles more passengers than any airport on earth, and the Class B airspace that comes with it sits over most of metropolitan Atlanta in a stack of shelves. Roughly six million people live under it. That single fact decides whether a show in this state is a routine authorization or a six-week federal conversation, […]
Hawaii looks like the easiest place in America to fly a drone show and is one of the hardest. The weather is reliably warm, sunset is consistent year-round, and almost every venue has a water horizon. Then you get into it. The trade winds blow out of the northeast nearly every day. Daniel K. Inouye […]
Houston is the only city in Texas where you can be inside Class B airspace, two miles from a refinery, under a sea breeze front, and standing in a park that is run by a private conservancy rather than the city – all at the same time. That is not an exaggeration of the complexity. […]
Idaho has something most states would pay for and cannot buy: actual darkness. The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve around Ketchum, Stanley and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area was the first reserve of its kind designated in the United States, and across most of the state the nearest meaningful light dome is a long way […]