So what did you think? Will it take off? I would say, yes it will.
So what did you think? Will it take off? I would say, yes it will.
Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Obviously. A plane doesn't generate motive power from its wheels.
For further details, see the xkcd blog post entitled "The Goddamn Airplane on the Goddamn Treadmill", which I cannot link to directly because I just registered this forum account.
No, it needs to reach 84 km/h or some such to time travel but since the treadmill is reducing it's speed to 0, it will never be able to travel in time.
Didnt airplane carriers in WW2 use a similar concept by driving straight into the wind?
People voting no should also explain why they think it wont fly
Well, the creator of that model could have hit hes head on a toilet sink and come up with the idea meanwhile :P
Because the plane needs to get the wind under it's wings to fly so to say, which happens if it's moving fast. If it's standing still, it doesn't matter if the wheels are spinning, it shouldn't fly.
except it won't be sitting still; airplanes are not cars, the wheels do not provide drive motion, it's all driven by the force of the propeller. being on a treadmill won't change the fact that the prop still pushes the plane forward fast enough to generate lift. seriously, watch the Mythbusters episode, they go into a really good depth of detail.
22 miles of hard road
33 years of tough luck
44 skulls buried in the ground
Crawling down through the muck
Ah yeah...