Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?

"Greg Copeland" wrote in message
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Only if you make many assumptions. Otherwise, he's wrong. The only
correct answer is "unknown" because of lacking information. The only
way to get off of, "unknown", is to make assumptions, which Cecil
happily did. Therefore, if he's allowed to make assumptions, so are
the rest of us. Which means, the answer is equally, "no".

Either way, he's wrong because he made an assumption or he's wrong
because we are allowed to make assumptions in the other direction,
thusly proving he's wrong.


Bull. The only unknown is the amount of friction due to rolling resistance
of the tires and wheel bearings. Give me that and I'll give you the takeoff
distance.