Columbus is a city where the biggest scheduling obstacle is a football stadium. Ohio Stadium seats over 100,000 people, Ohio State plays seven or eight home games a year, and on those Saturdays the airspace over campus falls under the standing federal restriction that covers major stadium events. Add the fact that Red, White & […]

The thing that defines drone show planning in Dallas is not the city. It is the airport thirty minutes west of it. Dallas-Fort Worth International generates one of the largest and most complex Class B airspace structures in the United States, and it does not stop politely at the county line. Dallas sits underneath it. […]

Delaware’s event year is decided at the beach. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Route 1 south of Milford carries the entire state’s summer economy, and Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany and Fenwick Island absorb a population that bears no relation to the off-season census. That is where the crowds are, that is where the budgets are, […]

There is an international border running through downtown Detroit, and it is roughly 2,000 feet from the riverfront. The boundary between the United States and Canada follows the Detroit River channel, which means a show staged at Hart Plaza or along the RiverWalk has Windsor, Ontario directly across the water and Canadian airspace beginning mid-river. […]

Downtown Denver is a mile up, which everybody knows, and under one of the more complicated pieces of controlled airspace in the Mountain West, which almost nobody outside aviation does. Between Denver International to the northeast, Centennial to the south and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan to the northwest, there is very little of this city where […]