In August in Arkansas, the air itself is a scattering medium. Dew points sit in the seventies for weeks, a soft haze settles into the river valleys after sundown, and a drone formation that looks razor-sharp in a 3D preview reads soft and halated through four hundred yards of wet air. Nobody warns clients about […]

Arizona has two seasons that matter to anyone flying a drone show, and neither of them is the one on the calendar. There is the window from October through April, when the air is dry, the evenings are cool and the state is about as reliable as anywhere in North America for an outdoor night […]

The Inner Harbor is one of the best drone show sites on the East Coast and it is not close. You have a natural amphitheater of brick promenade wrapping three sides of a sheltered basin, water that doubles every element of the formation, elevated public vantage points at Federal Hill and Rash Field looking straight […]

Around sunset from roughly March into early November, something like a million and a half Mexican free-tailed bats come out from under the Congress Avenue Bridge and fly east down Lady Bird Lake. People bring lawn chairs for it. It is one of the few cities in America where the local wildlife has a scheduled […]

Boston’s defining fact for anyone planning an aerial show is that Logan International is in the harbor. Not near the harbor. In it. The runway ends sit about two miles from downtown across the water, which means the Class B surface area lies directly over the North End, the Seaport, East Boston and a good […]