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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Tark
but then the wheels would have to move faster then the belt which is not possible because "This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same"
The wheels move at whatever speed the conveyor belt dictates. They just spin faster as the conveyor belt moves faster. But how fast they spin doesn't affect how fast the plane goes.
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