Montana is about 630 miles across. Billings to Kalispell is a nine-hour drive on a good day, and there is no shortcut. That geography is not a colorful detail, it is a line item: crew travel, vehicle days, lodging and the repositioning time between sites are a real part of what a Montana show costs, […]

Missouri is a state built around where two enormous rivers meet. The Missouri joins the Mississippi just north of St. Louis, and almost everything about staging a show in the eastern half of the state traces back to that geography: the barge traffic, the floodplain, the bluffs, and a downtown anchored by a 630-foot stainless […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]