How pilots stop airplanes from hydroplaning on wet runways?

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How pilots stop airplanes from hydroplaning on wet runways?

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They use NASA developed technology to minimize hydroplaning on wet runways. Have you ever seen grooved roadways? Nasa design. Langley Research Center (NASA) has a [Aircraft Landing Dynamics Facility](https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/improvingflight/aldf_demonstration.html) where aircraft tires and runway surfaces can be tested at race-car velocity. It was called Landing Loads Test Facility in the ’80s when I worked on their instrumentation. They were testing Space Shuttle tire designs while I was there.