Originally Posted by Kevin_W

I didn't want to go too hard and have poor traction. The finished tires actually felt much harder than BVM tires, and I think they would have performed very well. We will never know though since I crashed my ME262 on the second flight (my own fault). I did do a number of taxi tests, 2 takeoffs, and one landing on them though, and they the wear on the threads was minimal. I would suspect a higher shore hardness would be necessary with microballoons added though.