(September 6, 2014 at 1:55 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: All of this is moot, though. The plane's wheels have effectively zero effect on the plane's ability to create thrust and move forward on the runway. If the treadmill is always set to match the forward velocity of the aircraft, then the 747's wheels will always be rotating at 2x the indicated airspeed. The plane will take off just fine.
So we could make really short aircraft carriers?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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