Replica P-51 crash

I suppose you could be right Bager but I have lived all of my 42 years in Arizona and never once have I heard the the term “chaparral” used when referring to the desert vegetation. Although a poor choice I think “shrapnel” may very well have been the intended term.

I’ve lived in Nevada & Utah most of my life (52 years, mostly in rural areas), and many, many of the westerns I’ve read (from Zane Grey’s books written between 1908 & 1939 to modern westerns), and many movies, and many of the people I’ve met – including residents of Arizona & New Mexico – used the term regularly.

My great-grandparents had lived for a time in Arizona, working at a mine near Globe – and my grandparents (on both sides) spent time there before WW2 – and their letters use the term.

Perhaps you simply haven’t met people who use older terms?

I suppose you could be right Bager but I have lived all of my 42 years in Arizona and never once have I heard the the term “chaparral” used when referring to the desert vegetation. Although a poor choice I think “shrapnel” may very well have been the intended term.

Be that as it may, chaparral makes sense.
Why (or how) would the guy use “shrapnel” in that context?

Sigh… the last word, as I am sure it was spoken by the worker, should be “chaparral” – which refers to the thick low brush in the area (as seen in the photos)*.

* Chaparral (pronounced with a “sh” sound) technically refers to only specific vegetation found in southern and central California and northern Baja California, but the term is widely used across the American Southwest for similar vegetation.

I suppose you could be right Bager but I have lived all of my 42 years in Arizona and never once have I heard the the term “chaparral” used when referring to the desert vegetation. Although a poor choice I think “shrapnel” may very well have been the intended term.

That’s when they discovered chunks of the fuselage scattered in the shrapnel.

Sigh… the last word, as I am sure it was spoken by the worker, should be “chaparral” – which refers to the thick low brush in the area (as seen in the photos)*.

* Chaparral (pronounced with a “sh” sound) technically refers to only specific vegetation found in southern and central California and northern Baja California, but the term is widely used across the American Southwest for similar vegetation.

In terrain like that, it just isn’t going to end well..

So glad he will be OK, but a real shame about the aeroplane.

That’s a shame, hope he’s ok; usual journalistic accuracy “oil gushing from the fuel tank”

That’s three Thunder Mustangs down in the past few weeks. 🙁