Mount Washington holds one of the most famous wind records ever measured at a surface station, and the summit observatory has made a brand out of being the worst weather in the world. That is 6,288 feet of mountain sitting at the junction of three major storm tracks, and it is the reason nobody who […]

New Mexico has the clearest night air of any state we fly in. High desert, low humidity, very few people once you leave the Rio Grande corridor, and several certified International Dark Sky places inside its borders. A 300-drone show over Santa Fe or out past Silver City reads with a clarity you simply do […]

In most states the first question about a drone show is the airspace. In New Jersey it is the ground. This is the most densely populated state in the country, and the scarce resource is not sky, it is a flat, securable, unoccupied piece of earth with a few hundred feet of buffer around it […]

New York City has the hardest airspace in the United States. That is not marketing language, it is a description of the chart. Three major Class B airports, John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty, generate overlapping Class B architecture across the five boroughs and the harbor. Underneath it run the Hudson River and […]

New York is not one market. It is five or six markets that happen to share a state capital. A show on the Niagara River in June, a harvest-season show over a Seneca Lake vineyard, a Fourth of July show at a Long Island beach club and a winter show at a ski resort in […]