Are Sun Funs Attendance Numbers Fudged?
Thu, 27 Mar ’03 Although it’s been no secret to attendees (and many vendors), it’s escaped the local rah-rah crowd in and near Sun ‘n Fun’s host city of Lakeland (FL): the numbers the Fly-In puts out are, um… optimistic. Now, nobody’s really worried that the egoes of the SnF POWERFUL BOARD are being massaged by the incredible numbers they regularly spew — in and of themselves, they’re just numbers. What is getting under the skin of so many of the faithful — what else could explain the acceptance? — is that Sun ‘n Fun profits from its high, self-reported, unaudited attendance figures. Last year, we expressed open incredulity at SnF’s claims, on these pages; but the locals in politics in Lakeland and surrounding Polk County refused to examine their own pet project. Heck — we like big airshow attendance! We like big fly-in attendance — we’re aviation press, ferpetesake. What we don’t like is being treated like idiots. Last week, even The Lakeland Ledger, an unabashed cheerleader fo
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