What increased risk results when strut wear weakens an aircraft's landing gear?

💡 Explanation

Increased wear alters preload, therefore the effective damping decreases, leading to unstable oscillations. Gear component fatigue exacerbates any input disturbance launching the destructive shimmy mode, rather than stable damping, because weakened strut no longer absorbs perturbations.

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