PPT Slide
The technology: unlike primitive tracked technologies of the 1950s, reinforced aramid fibers (kevlar) and high-strength steel reinforcements can make “band-tracked” landing gear easy to maintain and safe.
Unlike the Concorde whose fragile, air-filled tires shredded on take off after running over a sharp object, causing a fiery crash that killed 114 innocent people, a tracked landing gear can run-over all kinds of dangerous objects and bumps without fatal damage