Or all the idiots that thought a plane couldn't take off on a treadmill
Fairly new here but fairly boffy too, surely a plane on a treadmill wont take off?
Lee
Has the sun exploded?
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Fairly new here but fairly boffy too, surely a plane on a treadmill wont take off?
Lee
Sorry, I wasn't unoriginal enough to call myself Pauly with numbers in my name.
Besides, I happen to know that the plane would take off and that most of the sun "theories" in this thread are idiotic. It's not a case of thinking I can't be wrong, it's simply a case of knowing these particular things.
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You've overpowered my feeble 1 watt brain allready *confused*
It doesn't matter how fast the 'ground' is moving, it's the air that counts. Move the plane on a treadmill as of it was taking off and increase the airspeed with fans like in a wind tunnel and there you go, plane takes off on treadmill.
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It will. If you imagine the treadmill going <-- that way at 100mph with the aircraft's engines and all its brakes off, the aircraft wouldn't roll back at 100mph, the wheels would partially free wheel and the aircraft would perhaps go back at 5mph. The thrust of the engine would then propel the plane forward at 250mph and it would take off due to the air moving over its wings, no matter how fast the treadmill was spinning. As long as it wasn't faster than the ability of the wheels to spin.
I already made it clear in my first post that I want to see how this thread unfolds.
If, when it's run its course, I feel like explaining a blow-by-blow of the death cycles of stars then I will. You must be the most boring person of all time if you really take the GD forum this seriously.
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I laughed at this answer to the plane / treadmill debate:
"I vote no, the plane will not take off. My reasoning is that as soon
as the plane's wheels leave the treadmill and actually starts to MOVE,
the plane will hit the gym mirror and crash to the floor."
"I vote no, the plane will not take off. My reasoning is that as soon
as the plane's wheels leave the treadmill and actually starts to MOVE,
the plane will hit the gym mirror and crash to the floor."
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Frosted..
No.
Just... no.
No.
Just... no.
Nah the first signs will be your skin melting off, and several hundred threads will appear, in GD asking if anyone else's skin just melted off.
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Which raises the question will a 747 accelerate to 250mph in half a second, maybe someone can employ newtons laws in working that one out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mK_9ZGAi7c
C-130 Hercules takes off and lands on a Carrier
