Maryland is organized by the Chesapeake Bay, and the bay does not just shape the geography, it splits the state into markets that have almost nothing to do with each other. The Western Shore runs from the Baltimore metro down through Annapolis and the Washington suburbs: dense, affluent, heavily regulated airspace. The Eastern Shore is […]

Memphis has an airspace situation that exists almost nowhere else in the country, and it is worth understanding before you pick a date. Memphis International is a Class B airport – the only one in Tennessee – and it did not earn that classification from passenger traffic. It earned it from freight. The FedEx superhub […]

Michigan has more freshwater coastline than any other state, and that single fact dictates almost everything about flying a show here. Wind arriving off Lake Michigan has crossed sixty miles of open water with nothing to slow it down, so a beach that feels calm at ground level can have a very different story at […]

Minnesota asks a drone show operator to work in two completely different climates in the same year. A show in International Falls in January and a show in Mankato in July are not variations on a theme – they are separate engineering problems. The swing between them is wider than anywhere else we work in […]

If you want to know where the money for live entertainment sits in Mississippi, look at a twenty-six mile strip of US 90 between Bay St. Louis and Biloxi. The Gulf Coast casinos are the state’s most experienced entertainment buyers by a distance – they program year-round, they own their own ground, they have in-house […]