The 2009 T33 Crash
Site Trip
This year before we ran the Middle St Vrain and Coney Flats Trails
we decided to to run the
155 & 203 trails up to the site of a T33 crash
in 1967. A couple of surprising fun ledges and a
little slick rock made for some fun wheeling.
Then a short hike to the crash site...
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Start of trail 203
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712 articulation
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One of the main landing gear struts (retracted)
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Wing section
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Tank
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Radio unit
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Looking inside, broken vacuum tubes
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Electric motor/servo
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Allison J33
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It was quite a ways down the hill from the main crash site
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42 years old and still pretty impressive
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Back up the hill, the exhaust tube
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Front of the tube
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Tail is the largest section intact
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Enjoying a sunny day
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Darren & Colin lift the right rear on this ledge
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A couple more ledges to go
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