Wind is the first thing to understand about flying a drone show in Kansas. Not storms, not airspace, not permits. Wind. The state sits in one of the windiest corridors in the country, and a 20-knot sustained breeze that a Kansan would describe as a pleasant evening is enough to change a show design, shorten […]
Every event calendar in Kentucky bends around the first Saturday in May. The Derby is not just a horse race here; it is a two-week festival that absorbs hotel inventory, police staffing, barricades, portable toilets and public attention across a large chunk of the state. If you are planning anything in April or early May, […]
The Las Vegas Strip sits roughly a mile west of Harry Reid International’s runways, directly under the arrival and departure flow. Stand outside the Luxor at nine in the evening and count the landing lights lined up to the south. That geography is the first and largest fact about staging a drone light show here: […]
Los Angeles has the hardest airspace of any city we fly in. Not the most restricted, that honor belongs to Washington, but the most crowded and the most layered. Within about thirty miles you have LAX, Hollywood Burbank, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Santa Monica, Whiteman, Compton, Hawthorne, Torrance and El Monte, plus the heaviest concentration […]
From early January through Fat Tuesday, Louisiana does not have an event calendar so much as a single continuous event. Carnival season commits parade routes, police details, barricades, krewe schedules and public patience across New Orleans, Metairie, Baton Rouge, Houma, Lafayette and a dozen smaller towns. Booking a drone show inside that window means competing […]