Let's say you had a giant treadmill with an airplane on it

[COOPERVANE]

COOPERVANE you're a trouble maker, I tell ya!!!!!!

On my 8th tequila shot

 

[AVDAD]

It will just roll off of this great big treadmill because there is no force at the wheels to push against the treadmill. Zoom, zoom , zoom

 

[jvrac]

Oooh! I'm going to post now so I can get really good thread seniority. :laugh:

 

[The_Russian]

What if you increase the incline of the treadmill? This would be like a ramp increasing the deck angle and changing the relative wind. The aircraft would surely fly.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

A thread like this went to over 200 pages on a non-pilot forum, it got to the point where people hounded the mythbusters to do it. They refused citing that even an idiot would know it would take off.

Oh, I see what you did here.

 

[The Drizzle]

Oh, I see what you did here.

o rly?

 

[AVDAD]

Is that like the angle of the dangle = the heat of the meat x the mass of the a$$?

 

[PCL_128]

it got to the point where people hounded the mythbusters to do it. They refused citing that even an idiot would know it would take off.

I just wanted to reiterate this before this thread turns into the embarrassing disaster that the last one did.

 

[NYCPilot]

Fellas, let me attempt to truncate this thread.

The plane WILL takeoff.

 

[30West]

A thread like this went to over 200 pages on a non-pilot forum, it got to the point where people hounded the mythbusters to do it. They refused citing that even an idiot would know it would take off.

heh heh heh