Can a plane take off from a treadmill?

Will it take off?


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aXiom

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That's the gist of it, but the treadmill is as long as a runway and no matter how fast the plane's wheels spin, the treadmill will match it. Will the plane take off?

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No.
I was taught sone shyt about "lift" some hunnid years or so ago... How that shyt gonna gain lift if it ain't moving.
 

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I swear the next comment is gonna be "because it is YOUR dog"

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if on a treadmill, the plane would not be moving forward. By staying in one place, it would not be creating the necessary air speed across its wings to lift it off the ground. Planes don't take off simply because their wheels are spinning quickly. On a treadmill, thats all that would be happening. the end.
 

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Absolutely not.

An airplane has to gradually take off at a slope/angle rather than just "lift" like a helicopter or even a person who could get a tiny running start and jump into the air.

It doesn't matter how fast the treadmill is going or how fast the airplanes wheels are moving because the wing as fuselage (attached to the plane obviously) need to be in motion in order to permit flight.

The sheer weight of the plane "rolling" on a treadmill would make it hard to take off because of the load shift and the weight of the plane is part of the wing/fuselage/engines, which need to move as one unit. The ground can't simply move and take away from the propulsion of the engines, which provide speed and the means to "lift"
 

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It's not getting any wind/air because the plane isn't moving fast enough forward..
Why isn't it moving fast enough? The plane gets propelled by its engines not its wheels. So how fast the wheels or treadmill moves is irrelevant to the acceleration of the plane.
 
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