From early January through Fat Tuesday, Louisiana does not have an event calendar so much as a single continuous event. Carnival season commits parade routes, police details, barricades, krewe schedules and public patience across New Orleans, Metairie, Baton Rouge, Houma, Lafayette and a dozen smaller towns. Booking a drone show inside that window means competing […]

Los Angeles has the hardest airspace of any city we fly in. Not the most restricted, that honor belongs to Washington, but the most crowded and the most layered. Within about thirty miles you have LAX, Hollywood Burbank, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Santa Monica, Whiteman, Compton, Hawthorne, Torrance and El Monte, plus the heaviest concentration […]

Thunder Over Louisville is the reason a lot of people in this city have a very high bar for anything that happens in the sky. It opens the Kentucky Derby Festival every April, it pairs an all-day air show with a fireworks display launched from barges and from the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, and […]

Maine’s event calendar is not a year. It is July and August, plus a handful of good evenings on either side. Rockland triples in size for the Maine Lobster Festival in early August. Boothbay Harbor runs Windjammer Days in June, Yarmouth has its Clam Festival in July, and nearly every harbor town between Kittery and […]

Massachusetts is a small state with an unusual problem: almost every place worth putting a show is either three hundred years old, under Logan’s airspace, on the water, or all three. The town commons that look perfect in photographs were laid out for grazing cattle in the 1600s and are ringed by wood frame houses […]