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Old February 7th 06, 01:28 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?

"muff528" wrote:

Uh-Oh!!.....here we go again!

I vote -- 120
Kinda like an escalator. You can still go up on a "down" escalator
if you run. The treadmill would have to be "set" at the 60 mph speed
so that the car's "input" would not affect it.

But that would change the problem. In the problem as stated, you would
have to have a device that determined the cars forward speed (NOT its
wheel speed) and feed that input to the speed regulator on the
treadmill.

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