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So may I suggest you all get your credit cards out and buy some computer stuff, play your games in style before its too late!
Most of us allready have computers to play our games in style
.Has the sun exploded?
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Most of us allready have computers to play our games in style
.In the mythbusters "busting" of the myth, the plane is clearly moving forward relative to its surroundings, not just to the treadmill
But what if the plane is generating enough thrust to move it forward at 100mph, and the treadmill is also going at 100mph. There's no airflow over the plane's wings...
But what if the plane is generating enough thrust to move it forward at 100mph, and the treadmill is also going at 100mph. There's no airflow over the plane's wings...
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I watched but thats a conveyor belt not a car like treadmill I was thinking of and the plane is moving forward so has airflow over its wings. I dont really get it tbh, would have to watch the full video
Like with that Hercules carrier takeoff I posted above, they had the carrier ploughing ahead at full speed with no load and into a headwind. It was to prove it could be done but all those factors helped it.
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Yet it is doing so at a much lesser speed than it would if it was taking off normally?
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Yet it is doing so at a much lesser speed than it would if it was taking off normally?
It's still not the same, though. I mean, if the treadmill/conveyor belt was moving at exactly the same speed as the plane (say X mph), as soon as it takes of it would have to go from 0 to X mph instantaneously otherwise it'd just be hovering.
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I didn't mean to start this again. Think of the wheels as an irrelevance (because they are), they basically freewheel and so would be spinning at 200mph (give or take), the plane still moves forwards and takes off.
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Should just use a catapult like they do on carriers, steam powered british invention none of this hollywood bunk 
The belt reduces rolling resistance allowing a shorter takeoff, if someone had just said that it would have made sense straight off
The belt reduces rolling resistance allowing a shorter takeoff, if someone had just said that it would have made sense straight off