I worked out at Wright Pat and they have some really neat equipment out there. The landing gear test facility was interesting to say the least. They had equipment that could simulate the weight of a plane landing while spinning the tire to over 300MPH under full load.
I was there right after Eric Medellin was killed and Goodyear brought in mounted slicks and they spun them up under load till they exploded.
Absolutely crazy stuff, they had a tower they would mount landing gear to, load it up with hundred thousand pounds and drop it 3 stories to see what would happen.