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is this true, shack?
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People in Group A hear:
"If you could rig a conveyor belt to move backwards at the same speed a plane is moving forwards, will that plane take off when using the conveyor as a runway?"
These people can apply some physics to the question and understand that the plan will, indeed, take off. They understand that a planes forward movement through the air comes from thrust, not from the mechanical rotation of the wheels. The wheels on planes (relating to take off) are there to reduce friction. A plane with no wheels could still take off provided it had enough thrust to overcome the friction of its fuselage dragging alone the tarmac.
People in Group B hear:
"If you could rig a conveyor belt to move backwards at a speed so that a plane using it as a runway could not move forward, will it take off?"
These people... are idiots. Of-fucking-course a plane won't take off it if has an airspeed of zero. This is not the point of the "myth". Not to mention that its impossible to achieve what this myth purports without the operator of the plane deliberately "sabotaging" his own takeoff attempt.
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