Thread: Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?
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Old February 6th 06, 10:30 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?

Happy Dog wrote:
"cjcampbell" wrote in message

Still, it seems counterintuitive to me that if a plane is
sitting on a conveyer that is moving backwards at exactly the same
speed (I assume they mean groundspeed here) as the airplane is moving
forward that the airplane will move forward at the same speed as if it
was not on a conveyer at all.

Then you may not be ready for this:

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/monty/monty.htm


Now I have a headache. And they call me a troll and a Nazi. :-)