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Originally Posted by Ste
Because, and i'll repeat this for you as you obviously haven't read the thread, the plane takes off as normal.
the wheels spin twice as fast but doesn't affect the take-off.
Jeez.
I emailed the problem to my housemate (a physics graduate) and he replied within a couple of minutes:
"yes the plane would take off, the wheels would just spin round but the engines are what actually make it move"
Once you get over the incorrect idea that the wheels actually drive the plane then it's pretty simple.
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yeh idd I thought about that when I went to get some food
anyway, the speed of the treadmill ALWAYS matches the speed of the plane, so imo it won't get off the ground as the plane needs to gather speed and thus movement before it can lift up..
and I did read "most" of the thread, just disagreeing with what ppl have said
the engines would indeed make the plane move, but until a certain speed is reached it will stay on the ground, and it will not reach that certain speed because the threadmil works against it