Holiday celebrations
Fourth of July, Pioneer Day, New Year's Eve. Cold nights, long lenses, no smoke.
Fourth of July, Pioneer Day, New Year's Eve. Holiday shows are the work we do most, and they fly on the nights with the biggest crowds and the tightest fire restrictions. There's no smoke, so the tenth minute is as clear as the first.
Smoke is the whole argument
A large pyro finale spends its last two minutes behind its own smoke, and on a still night the display goes grey. Drones don't produce any, so a fifteen-minute holiday show reads cleanly the whole way through and photographs well from the first frame to the last. On the cold, clear nights we mostly fly, the lights carry for miles.
When the fireworks permit falls through
Much of the West spends its summer under some level of burn restriction, and a lot of the Fourth of July calls we take come from cities that lost their fireworks permit in June. We fly under an FAA authorization rather than a pyrotechnic permit, so a burn ban doesn't ground us.
Book early for the Fourth
Independence Day is the single most contested date in the calendar, and we take a limited number of shows because one crew flies all of them. If your city is planning for July, the conversation goes better in January than in May.