Seattle is a city where the sky is genuinely hard to use. Sea-Tac throws a Class B shelf over most of the metro. Boeing Field sits wedged underneath it. Renton Municipal is at the south end of Lake Washington next to a 737 plant. And then there are the floatplanes, which operate out of South […]

Charleston wrote the first historic district zoning ordinance in the United States in 1931, and the Board of Architectural Review it created has been saying no to things on the peninsula ever since. Ninety miles up the coast, Myrtle Beach runs one of the densest tourist economies on the Atlantic seaboard and packs most of […]

Tennessee is legally divided into three grand divisions, and that is not a tourism-brochure flourish – it is written into state law and it shows up in how events actually get booked. East Tennessee is mountain country and tourism money. Middle Tennessee is the state capital, the horse farms and the fastest-growing suburban ring in […]

South Dakota does not have a single Class B or Class C airport. The entire state’s controlled airspace consists of Class D surface areas at Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Ellsworth Air Force Base and a few smaller fields. For a drone show operator that sounds like a gift, and in some ways it is. It […]

El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Beaumont. That single fact shapes more drone show budgets in Texas than any regulation does. A production team can leave Dallas at dawn, drive all day, and still be in Texas at dinner. When a client in the Panhandle and a client on the […]