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ADJ transforms USS Midway into a festive winter wonderland for “Jingle Jets 2025”

Flashback Lighting/Innovative Presentations of San Diego, California, was recently responsible for illuminating one of the city’s USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum, for its third annual “Jingle Jets” holiday event. Utilizing a variety of ADJ luminaires, including Hydro Profile moving heads as well as static Encore LP32 IP and 7PZ IP washes, the ship was completely transformed with swathes of color and moving gobo projections.

Running on select nights from November 28 through December 30, 2025, “Jingle Jets” delivered lighting displays, festive performances, and seasonal cheer for the whole family - all set against the backdrop of a historic aircraft carrier. With guests exploring multiple decks, including the expansive flight deck, the lighting design needed to be both visually impactful and robust enough to withstand the challenges of a large-scale outdoor environment.

“We were tasked with transforming the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum into a full winter wonderland of color”, says Matt Short, Executive Lighting Director at Flashback Lighting/Innovative Presentations. “To bring this vision to life, we deployed more than 140 ADJ and Elation lighting instruments and control components across two decks, including the 4-acre flight deck.”

To bathe the vast exterior spaces in color, the team turned to ADJ’s IP65-rated fixtures. A combination of twenty Encore LP32 IP and twenty 7PZ IP LED-powered wash lights were used to flood the flight deck with vibrant hues. Adding a layer of festive detail, 22 ADJ Hydro Profile automated luminaires were used to project custom snowflake gobos across the deck and onto the ship’s bridge, helping to reinforce the winter theme while highlighting the carrier’s architecture. On the lower deck, where fixtures were sheltered from weather conditions, 22 ADJ Focus Profile automated luminaires were deployed to provide additional color accents and gobo pattern projections.

Control for the entire lighting system was handled by an NX2 console from ADJ’s sister company Obsidian Control Systems. To distribute DMX across the aircraft carrier’s main deck, the team utilized the new Aria X2 wireless control protocol. Seven IP65-rated Aria X2 IPC transceivers were strategically positioned across the deck, ensuring wireless signal distribution to clusters of fixtures spread over the 4-acre space.

Additionally, 37 Elation Arena Par Zoom and ten Elation Satura Spot CMY Pro fixtures, as well as two EN12s, two EN6 IPs and an RDM6 IP from Obsidian Control Systems, were used for the “Jingle Jets” event.

(Photos: ADJ Lighting/USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum)

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