Was Continental Responsible For the Concorde Crash? « Heritage Concorde
I note in the photo of the skid marks leading to the frangible RW light fixture a pronounced linear oscillation by number three tyre..... (the
shimmy)
At two hundred mph, that might have been snubbed by the missing thrust washer/spacer? Its production of drag could not have helped the attempt to regain the centerline?
From "Heritage Concorde"
"By the day of the accident the shear bush had moved a full seven inches out of alignment to the point where the two washers were almost touching."