Limitations on the Use of Automation at Your Company

[sayrejm]

thats funny because it was the guys younger than I was in my class that went to fly the ATR... However, sometimes I wish I had just for the experience.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Imagine an actual aviation thread on an aviation forum. Wow....

 

[COOPERVANE]

What if you put an airplane on a giant treadmill designed to match the speed of the plane and hold it stationary as the airplane accelerated.

Would it ever take off?

 

[Jar Jar]

What if you put an airplane on a giant treadmill designed to match the speed of the plane and hold it stationary as the airplane accelerated.

Would it ever take off?

What if the parking brake was set? Would it take off backwards?

 

[sayrejm]

OMG no it wont! Seriously!

The lift equation states that lift L is equal to the lift coefficient Cl times the density r times half of the velocity V squared times the wing area A.

L = Cl * r * .5 * V^2 * A

The velocity, V, is the free-stream velocity just ahead of the stagnation point located on the wing's leading edge. This would be 0 in the scenario you provide thus setting the solution for the equation of lift, L, to 0 as well.

Idiots.... GOSH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBJbWC5J2M&feature=fvst

 

[lindsaya99]

I want to know how she took those stickers off without hurting her.....uh you know.

 

[sayrejm]

Easy... you just gotta get em nice and wet first.

 

[buscap]

Hooray for boobies!!

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[rettofly]

Easy... you just gotta get em nice and wet first.

Pearl necklace or golden shower?

 

[CX880]

The Chinese have already experimented with Airplane/Treadmill theory. Except that they have giant treadmills as well as wind tunnels so as to create enough wind while the airplane remains in one spot while the treadmills is running. They have managed to float an airplane but nobody knows what to do to make it fly away