MythBusters airplane on a conveyor belt
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
consider the case of landing on that same treadmill
and applying the brakes. What do you think happens?
You're going to end up on your back!
Yeah - if the pilot doesn't correct for the treadmill motion and uses the
usual brake pressure it could nose over. Relative to the wheels it "looks"
like a fast landing.
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