Can a plane take off from a treadmill?

Will it take off?


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:heh: no shyt sherlock, you ever seen a plane take on the inside of an airport?

Think of it this way. If you get on a treadmill with rollerblades on and hold on to the rails, wouldn't you be able to pull yourself forward regardless of the speed of the treadmill? Your acceleration doesn't come from the wheels of the rollerblades, but from your arms. It's the same for the plane, it doesn't matter how fast its wheels are spinning relevant to the treadmill. Once its engines are propelling it forward, it will take off.
if you,re running inside a gymnasium you will feel the air hit your face eventhough you are inside. if you are running on a treadmill you will not feel it. if you can one day, put your treadmil outside on a day when it's not windy, plug it with a cord extension and run on it. you will not feel wind. if you get off the treadmill and run, you will feel wind.

Plenty of people tried to explain it to you. Don't know how else to break it down. it's up to you from now...
 

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:heh: no shyt sherlock, you ever seen a plane take on the inside of an airport?

Think of it this way. If you get on a treadmill with rollerblades on and hold on to the rails, wouldn't you be able to pull yourself forward regardless of the speed of the treadmill? Your acceleration doesn't come from the wheels of the rollerblades, but from your arms. It's the same for the plane, it doesn't matter how fast its wheels are spinning relevant to the treadmill. Once its engines are propelling it forward, it will take off.

And here he goes again.. Well is the plane going faster than the treadmill or not? Make up your mind.

Lets say you put a sailboat with wheels on a treadmill, and the speed of the treadmil matches the wind speed that pushes the boat forward.
According to you the boat will still go forward because the acceleration doesn't come from the wheels of the sailboat, but from your the wind/sail.
Stupid logic
 

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Alot of yall in here exposing yalls dumbness need to watch Mythbusters more often because they did this experiment...and the answer is YES the plane will still takeoff.





And its because the plane is getting forward momentum not from the wheels but from the propeller(or turbine engine in the case of a jet). The plane will still move forward and take off its just the wheels that will be going faster than usual.
 

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And here he goes again.. Well is the plane going faster than the threadmill or not? Make up your mind.

Lets say you put a sailboat with wheels on a treadmill, and the speed of the treadmil matches the wind speed that pushes the boat forward.
According to you the boat will still go forward because the acceleration doesn't come from the wheels of the sailboat, but from your the wind/sail.
Stupid logic
If the plane doesn't go faster than the treadmill it wont take off. So yes, the plane does take off, the speed of the treadmill and speeds of the wheels of the plane are irrelevant. The plane is propelled by its engine not its wheels. so no matter how fast the treadmill is spinning the plane will take off once it gets up to speed.
 

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If you were born in mexico and spoke spanish for the first 15 years of your life...then moved to america for 15 more years and spoke nothing but english...would your dreams be in english or spanish?

or vice versa spoke english then moved to somewhere else and spoke a different language
 

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If you were born in mexico and spoke spanish for the first 15 years of your life...then moved to america for 15 more years and spoke nothing but english...would your dreams be in english or spanish?

or vice versa spoke english then moved to somewhere else and spoke a different language


well if you only speak English during those 15 years then it would become your primary language and the one you dream and think in
 

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my dad used to work on jets in the military what makes a wing create lift is something called the bernoulli effect which has something to do with the way wind travels over and under the wing in a way that promotes upward lift so yeah it would take off

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If you were born in mexico and spoke spanish for the first 15 years of your life...then moved to america for 15 more years and spoke nothing but english...would your dreams be in english or spanish?

or vice versa spoke english then moved to somewhere else and spoke a different language

:ohhh:

I would think it would be english also...but as i kept think about it it might be really a mixture of both languages or flipping between languages per your different dreams.


Anyway i got one. If you were in an Iron Man suit would you ever truly be able to hover at 10,000 feet? That is to say if you were at any height greater enough that you could/wouldn't be directly thrusting against the ground, and you matched the rate of gravity's constant acceleration in relation to your weight, would you actually achieve equilibrium or would you in fact always be constantly either be moving up or down very very very slowly?
 

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lmao. start trek shyt goin on in here? the enterprise doesn't move, the universe moves around it, eh?
 
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