{"id":7225,"date":"2020-04-24T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:03:13","slug":"sun-n-fun-fly-in-launches-home-edition-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/sun-n-fun-fly-in-launches-home-edition-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN \u2018n FUN Fly-In Launches Home Edition 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakeland, Florida:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Home Edition 2020<\/a>\u00a0launches today and will excite aviation enthusiasts across the globe by delivering the\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo<\/a>\u00a0in a new venue –\u00a0Cyberspace.<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo<\/a>has faced its share of challenges over its 46-year history overcoming snow, a tornado, flooding rain, sequestration, and extreme heat. Now having to cancel its 2020 event due to coronavirus, the team at SUN \u2018n FUN was not going to be deterred from their mission to\u00a0Engage, Educate and Accelerate the next generation of aerospace professionals<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe didn\u2019t sit back and give up\u201d said John \u201cLites\u201d Leenhouts, President and CEO of the\u00a0Aerospace Center for Excellence<\/a>. \u201cWe got to work on alternative ways to bring the excitement and comaraderie that our\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace Expo<\/a>\u00a0is known for to people around the world. Our partners, sponsors, exhibitors, and the whole airshow community are working alongside us which is why\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Home Edition 2020<\/a>\u00a0will be a great experience\u201d. Lites went on to say, \u201cOur theme for this year was\u00a0Experience Flight in 2020<\/em>\u00a0and little did we know that it would be a virtual experience!\u201d
SUN ‘n FUN hopes the concept will keep their audience engaged until the Fly-In can return in 2021. Proceeds from sales and donations will benefit SUN \u2018n FUN\u2019s\u00a0Aerospace Center for Excellence<\/a>.\u00a0Without their annual event, this non-profit 501c3 organization has lost over 80% of its annual funding, placing many of its scholarships and award-winning STEM education programs on hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Home Edition 2020<\/a>\u00a0is all the parts of the annual Aerospace Expo that attendees have come to know and love and a whole lot more\u201d, says Greg Gibson, Chief Marketing Officer and Airshow Director. \u201cThe SUN \u2018n FUN Home Edition is an overall experience that will be accessed via a web portal at\u00a0www.FLYSnF.org<\/a>\u00a0right from our home page. Once you click into the\u00a0Home Edition<\/a>, you\u2019ll have access to tons of online content including some things that you have never seen before!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Home Edition<\/a>\u00a0is more than just a website, it\u2019s a whole new SUN \u2018n FUN Experience, including a series of online interviews with performers and show attractions over the next several weeks, leading up to a four-hour live online airshow May 30th. The website has hundreds of hours of video, photo galleries, and an interactive virtual expo where patrons can visit exhibitors and even buy from a selection of online specials those exhibitors will be promoting on their websites linked from the virtual SUN \u2018n FUN. There is even 2020 collectible SUN \u2018n FUN merchandise from\u201cThe Greatest Airshow That Never Happened\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0Every area of SUN \u2018n FUN is represented, including Warbirds, Homebuilt, Aerobatic HQ, Vintage, and Paradise City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to block your calendar for\u00a0Saturday, May 30th<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Home Edition<\/a>\u00a0will present a 4 hour never-before-seen\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Home Edition Live Online Benefit Broadcast<\/a>!<\/strong>\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN will have all your favorite performers, interviews, and airshow action in a new and exciting format. Details of this unique event will be available soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content for this new virtual experience has begun starting to roll out and is available on its website\u00a0www.flysnf.org,\u00a0and social channels including\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram.\u00a0Micheal Goulian\u00a0is the first scheduled guest to take part in a live online interview as part of\u00a0Performer Profiles. Scheduled for\u00a0May 1st at 6:00 pm EST,\u00a0Michael will share how he became one of North America’s most decorated aerobatic pilots and recognized aviation professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chat Live with your favorite Airshow Performers including\u00a0Michael Goulian<\/a>\u00a0of Goulian Aerosports,\u00a0Aeroshell Team<\/a>, and Paul and Caroline Dougherty of\u00a0Dougherty Airshows<\/a>. Hosted by\u00a0Steph Stricklen<\/a>,\u00a0Performer Profiles’<\/a>\u00a0guests will share personal insights like how they got into their craft, what it takes to stay at the top of their game as daring aerial artists, and other behind the scenes stories. The audience will be able to participate too! Check the Schedule for dates and times of all the guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss the roar of engines and the smell of jet fuel? Then you\u2019re in need of an airshow fix! Checkout SUN \u2018n FUN\u2019s Greatest Hits from\u00a0Live Airshow TV<\/a>. Relive the excitement of the Preflight Show plus all the action-packed complete replay of the weekends\u2019 airshows from SUN \u2018n FUN over the past several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stroll through the areas of the\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Expo Campus<\/a>\u00a0that you’ve come to love. Warbird Country. Homebuilt. Hangars full of exhibitors\u2019 products. Paradise City’s displays of Light Sport planes. Education Showcases. Its all here !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to checkout exhibitors as many will have discounts and specials advertised in their virtual booths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ACE STEMChats<\/a>\u00a0is a growing collection of videos and activities for the young aviators in the family. Created by our\u00a0Aerospace Center for Excellence<\/a>\u00a0Educators, this is the place to go for ideas to keep home-schooling cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lakeland, Florida:\u00a0The\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Home Edition 2020\u00a0launches today and will excite aviation enthusiasts across the globe by delivering the\u00a0SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo\u00a0in a new venue –\u00a0Cyberspace.\u00a0The\u00a0SUN \u2018n FUN Aerospace… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}