View Poll Results: Will a plane on a conveyor take off?
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a plane moves forward via the propellers/turbine engines, not wheels.
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It's gonna crash, that's what's gonna happen...bitches.
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there's basically to schools of thought on this
1. The conveyor would put sufficient drag on the plane to counteract it's thrust thus it remains stationary.
2. The conveyor will just make the wheels spin faster and the plane will move forward thus taking off.
everyone realizes you need air speed to create lift
1. The conveyor would put sufficient drag on the plane to counteract it's thrust thus it remains stationary.
2. The conveyor will just make the wheels spin faster and the plane will move forward thus taking off.
everyone realizes you need air speed to create lift
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It needs some contact with the ground in order to get the airspeed to take off. It can't just hover in the air and magically take off...then it'd be a UFO o:
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i can't understand why this fact elludes people
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but if the jet engine moves the plane forward & the conveyor belt moves it backward at the same rate as it moves forward, then there is effectively ZERO movement & no movement = no air movement over the wings = no lift = no liftoff
i can't understand why this fact elludes people
i can't understand why this fact elludes people
because this isn't a walgreens world....
much like a feather and a rock can fall at the same rate...
a plane can take off on a conveyor belt if brett wants it to....
h:and in all honestly... I don't really care too much... I just want to fuel shit
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