Plane needs air speed over its wings to fly, plane not moving forward = no air speed = no lift.
The old airplane on a conveyor...
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Uh huh....and what's going to prevent it from moving forward? Nothing.
God damnit. Do we really have to go over this again?
Didn't think about that, since it isn't the wheels driving the plane forward nothing would stop it. I feel silly now.
LMAO! I remember the first one way back when. Let's lock this baby down at post 69!
Must have been before me.
Based on the picture, no. There isn't enough runway. Lol
Always fun to just sit back and watch whenever this pops up.
The dress is defitnitely white and gold.
So in reality, the plane drives off the end of the conveyor belt, and still doesn't fly.
I remember adamantly claiming that the opposite just so people could mansplain things to me.
Was a great thread.
Was a great thread.
I think this thread popped up again in 2008 or so if I remember right. I remember it took place right before the mythbusters episode.
But ya, seems people mostly know now that it takes off.
But ya, seems people mostly know now that it takes off.
But the argument is IF it can it take off, and given the physics of how planes fly, yes it can take off. Because planes use air thrust to move. So in the context of this riddle/argument you have to assume the plane needs to use its engine to move forward to prove(or disprove) the results of the argument...thus the plane accelerates and overcomes the "conveyor" that's moving the opposite direction because the wheels of a plane don't have any effect on forward movement under normal conditions(functioning wheels/bearings...etc). They just spin freely forward and backward. The plane takes off as normal albeit the wheels spinning a little faster since the ground is moving.
thePill told me it would only fly if it's equipped with a hot v turbo setup and rocking the motor code named hummingbird with a stout 808 hp rating that Dodge stole from Ford developing a plan for the Demon to precisely produce that number on pump gas. Mark this post, it's all true. That's why Travis begged him repeatedly to come back to drop his God like knowledge on the SVTP boards.
thePill knows his shit! Dude's got advanced automotive engineering degrees in metallurgy, alchemy and shit. If anyone knows the sorcery required for flight under these conditions it would be thePill.
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