View Single Post
  #106  
Old February 5th 06, 03:56 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?


"BDS" wrote in message
t...

Maybe he's not so smart after all :)

On a calm day you can run and feel a wind on your face because you are
moving across the ground as well as through the air. But, if you run on a
treadmill there will be no wind because you are not moving through the

air -
the air is calm so it has no relative motion with respect to the ground.
Neither do you when you run on a treadmill.

Yes, but an airplane isn't propelled by its feet.