Florida gets struck by lightning more than any other state, and the corridor from Tampa Bay across to the Space Coast is the most strike-dense ground in the country. That is not a trivia fact when you are planning an outdoor show. It is the reason a Florida run of show needs a hold window […]

Stand on the roof of a downtown El Paso hotel and the lights of Ciudad Juarez start about a mile away and keep going to the horizon. There is no buffer. The international border runs through the middle of a single continuous urban area of more than two million people, and for a drone show […]

Twice a day, a handful of drovers walk a herd of Texas Longhorns down Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards. It is a tourist event, and it is also a reminder that Fort Worth has live cattle, working rodeo arenas and a permanent horse population inside its most requested entertainment district. That is not a detail […]

Hartsfield-Jackson handles more passengers than any airport on earth, and the Class B airspace that comes with it sits over most of metropolitan Atlanta in a stack of shelves. Roughly six million people live under it. That single fact decides whether a show in this state is a routine authorization or a six-week federal conversation, […]

Hawaii looks like the easiest place in America to fly a drone show and is one of the hardest. The weather is reliably warm, sunset is consistent year-round, and almost every venue has a water horizon. Then you get into it. The trade winds blow out of the northeast nearly every day. Daniel K. Inouye […]