The Plane Took Off!!!!!!!!!

[guitarsjb]

How could anyone still be confused. OVER. Plane flies (as it should)

[audiophile]

Don't bother considering the plane taking flight, that is an after effect.
The idea was set a plane to move forward at a set speed, set the conveyor to move opposite at same speed, the two negate and the plane remains stationary, which it didn't. The plane moves forward at the speed it was set to.

If plane gets fast enough it will fly, if 80% thrust is all it takes, let the treadmill go 100% or 1000%, won't matter plane will throttle to 80%, move forward, reach speed necessary for lift and take off

The big catch is, the plane cannot be held back or stationary regardless of speed of either device. That alone is enough to prove the plane will take off as it would without a belt

[Bert]

woohoo! :ROTF:

[dg]

The key thing to get a grasp on is why the conveyor has no (or very little) effect on the plane. A plane is not like a car. Its wheels spin freely and have nothing to do with propelling it. The propeller or jet engine pushes it forward and the conveyor has only a small friction effect on it.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060203.html

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060303.html

[toejam]

If I jump off a building and flap my arms really fast, will I fly? I'm not gonna try this at home, I'll just get some other poor sap to try it.
:ROTF:

[Bengal]

I will give JACKSONESP some dapp. At least he's in here trying to figure out why he was wrong. Were are the others? There was a shitload on the other side of the debate. It's pretty quiet still. Bunch of people don't wanna eat their crow...

Oh well, they know who they are...

And so do we...

[RobRR]

[Bengal]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Damn funny...

[Cygnus X1]

What plane?
Take off?
Huh?

Another reason I don't gamble.
I'm wrong 50 percent of the time.
Breaking even is no fun.

[Evilution]

Of course it flew, the plane moved forwards.

[fuel0707]

If I jump off a building and flap my arms really fast, will I fly? I'm not gonna try this at home, I'll just get some other poor sap to try it.
:ROTF:

I think Wiley E. Coyote, super genius, tried that a few times. You might search for his results on that approach.

[StukaJU87]

Looks like myself, RobRR and 7thSon were right. What do we win?:ROTF: Lifetime Platinum Membership?

[Sunbane]

Congrats!

[zeegler]

Looks like myself, RobRR and 7thSon were right. What do we win?:ROTF: Lifetime Platinum Membership?

Hey, me too!! I've said from day one that the plane would take off.

[JACKS0NESP]

What plane?
Take off?
Huh?

Another reason I don't gamble.
I'm wrong 50 percent of the time.
Breaking even is no fun.

Seriously?

A mythbusters myth....