{"id":11186,"date":"2026-01-17T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:46:57","slug":"car-show-and-fly-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/car-show-and-fly-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Show and Fly-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We attended the annual Wickenburg Fly-in and Car Show this morning on a beautiful January day here at the local airport. Among the sights to see (and hear) was this magnificent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consolidated_PB4Y-2_Privateer\" target=\"_blank\">PB4Y Privateer<\/a> which did a 150 foot elevation pass along the runway centerline before circling to land and taxi to its display position. What a sound! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-p4y-66302-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also saw literally hundreds of cars and dozens of different aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>There were rows and rows of classic cars and hot rods. (Look at the weather &#8211; clear sky and 70&deg;.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-cars-row-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel took this photo of a gyroplane on the aircraft line:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-gyroplane-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more unusual entries in the car category was &#8220;El Grinch,&#8221; this odd-colored Jeep:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260117-el-grinch-jeep-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a fun and interesting event and a nice way to spend a couple of hours this morning. Click on any image to view enlarged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We attended the annual Wickenburg Fly-in and Car Show this morning on a beautiful January day here at the local airport. Among the sights to see&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,40,84,26,85,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-aviation","category-classics","category-entertainment","category-nostalgia","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}