Originally Posted by tegbooster
after 2 years of physics...it's not too difficult to figure that everyone here is correct *or at least the first few that i read* is that it can not take off...technically the plane is 100% stationary so therefor there is no wind resistance or pressure anywhere around it....it's like the plane doing a big burnout...the speed it's "going" doesn't mean anything...if there was a big enuff wind tunnel that could produce that kind of pressure...then yes but just on a bigass dyno...it wont work....
AND YOU ARE RIGHT! And everyone else that agrees with this is too(under the ideal conditions set by the original question)! The plane stays stationary because the forward velocity is cancelled by the conveyor (it is in a way pushing the plane back to where it came from at any given moment). It is true that planes gain velocity from the trust of the engines, but initially to take off its the friction of the wheels on the ground that allow it to move forward to create lift. If this was even possible, why in the hell would we have runways for?