Imagine a 747 is sitting on a conveyor belt, as wide and long as a runway. The conveyor belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels, moving in the opposite direction. The wheels are frictionless. Can the plane take off?
Imagine a 747 is sitting on a conveyor belt, as wide and long as a runway...
Angel Jackson
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Carson Thompson
why wouldnt?
Justin Rodriguez
No, liftoff only occurs because of air movement over the wings, there would be no air movement and thus no liftoff
Jonathan Lee
Yes because wheels are the only thing that determine whether a plane can fly or not
Xavier Robinson
yes because turbins move air anyway
Jayden Martin
Yes, because the thrust from the plane is not coming from the wheels, it's coming from the engines. Assuming no friction the wheels and converyor will accelerate infinitely as the plane moves forward and accelerates to take-off speed.
Brody Wilson
yes, the plane is moved by the thrust of its engines and not the wheels, so a conveyor moving at the same speed as the plane with no friction (i assume this means no bearing friction, not no grip at all), will just force the wheels to spin twice their normal speed while the plane takes off at normal speed.
Mason Barnes
No, It's going to crash into the beams supporting the top half of the treadmill. The wings are too long.
Liam Hernandez
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Camden Miller
No. Because it needs air under the wings. That builds up from it moving forward. You don't test wind resistance by just having something run in place.
Levi Murphy
Sure, if it has 200+ km/h headwind
Nolan Jenkins
Yeah, wind...
Lucas Myers
>sciencefag
Joshua Harris
Without the wind sheering off the wings due to forward momentum? Are you people actually retarded?
Nicholas Campbell
No.
Belt and wheels have the same speed.
So the plane does not move, stays where it is.
You can now leave out belt and wheels from the equation.
Plane does not lift because no wind flowing under the wings while it's standing there.
Jose Foster
didnt Mythbusters disprove this already?
Jayden Foster
no because as soon as it leaves the ground it'll hit the frame of the treadmill
Caleb Phillips
the jet fuel will melt it
Christian Gray
Not as long as the airspeed is 0, since lift is a funktion of airspeed.
If the plane however manages to accellerate relative to the air it would take off.
Carter Butler
Is this what inbreeding does?
Nathan James
>planes use wheels to fly
stop posting
Nolan Jackson
Kinda pointless to even have it on a conveyor belt. The belt wont even slow it down because the force comes from the turbines on the wings, not the wheels.
Austin Jones
nigger stop trying to get us to do your physics homework you've been posting this thread for a week
Jason Barnes
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Aaron Jenkins
Yep, they made a giant conveyor belt and everything. They did it with a small prop plane, not a jet.
Isaiah Collins
Yes
Mythbusters Prooved it
Charles Myers
Yes. The 747 doesnt apply power to its wheels.
It would have trouble landing safely however.
Brody Harris
Airspeed is not groundspeed, OP.
Levi Reyes
This is correct. a planes forward motion is driven by the engines. and it's take off speed is determined by how fast the wings are moving through the air. What's happening with the wheels and runway are irrelevant as long as they don't hinder the planes ability to move forward.
Jaxon Young
This is the anser
Jonathan Perez
No, The air flow over the wing creates lift.
The plane would be able to take of without any forward momentum (relative to the ground) if the wind speed was fast enough.
Jace Ramirez
Wooosh
Brody Campbell
All of you are stupid cucks if the treadmill moves at the rate of wheels hold the brakes and slam the throttle just drag the wheels