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Off base here amigo. Some of us DO recognize the mass of the plane. The plane connects to the ground via it"s wheels. the wheels are not a device to generate thrust or power, but to reduce the intended friction of the plane in relation to the ground. An average planes wheels generate 40 pounds...

Dude, give it up, all you are doing is digging yourself a deeper hole. Your inability to recognize the forces in action here make the above scenario flawed. Here is why. The prop of a plane must be sufficeint enough to overcome the amount of drag produced by the wheels. It"s already been...

acheive thrust doesn"t mean anything. The engine is providing thrust no matter what. What matters is the movement in relation to the surroundings. It"s moving like a mofo in relation to the conveyor, but not moving in relation to the ground around it. It"s not the force on the conveyor, its the...

It"s not applying force to the plane. It"s moving in the opposite direction that the plane is attempting to move. To an observer on the plane, the conveyor is moving at blinding speed, but when he looks at the ground, the ground is sitting still. Let me ask you this way. We were given the...

I find this funny. The guy that"s wrong is calling the guy that"s right a moron. The wheels don"t propel the plane. Salacious didn"t say that they do, I didn"t say that they do... What the wheels on an plane DO, in fact in the real world is prop the plane off the ground, and provide as low of...

The question again. "An airplane is on a conveyor. The conveyor is set to match the speed of the airplane in the backwords direction. However fast the plane moves, the conveyor moves just as fast." The part here that says the conveyor is set to match the speed of plane in the backwards...

You make many suppositions in that reply, Wand. If the conveyor can be built, you say it can"t.. if the bearings can withstand the friction, etc etc. You didn"t give us real-world rules, and going on hypotheticals and theoreticals, you even admit that it"s possible by stating, "The ONLY way a...

Let me first state how I read the first question in the most simplified manner I can. paraphrase: The conveyor belt the plane sits on accelerates to match and counteract the speed the plane"s thrust would create. If the plane"s wings don"t move through the air, then the plane can"t take off...