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Old December 11th 07, 04:48 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt, rec.aviation.piloting, rec.skydiving
Bob Crawford
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Default FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

On Dec 10, 9:27 pm, " wrote:
On Dec 9, 1:54 am, James Sleeman wrote:
safely land an airplane and if a plane can take off from a conveyor belt


Oh lordy, here we go again, I sense an enormous thread coming.


It started in 1931. Look at patent number 1824346.


Interesting.
Tho that patent has the conveyor belt going the opposite way to the
internet myth that's being tested (ie. same direction as aircraft
taking off).
http://www.google.com/patents?id=c9x...patent:1824346