Can A Plane Take Off On A Treadmill?
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From: Columbus
Originally Posted by SIIK2NR,Jan 30 2008, 10:30 PM
Everyone that said it wouldn't take off.....
OWNED!!!!
Start deleting your posts now... ahahhaahaaaaaa
If you were quoted...your screwed...
OWNED!!!!
Start deleting your posts now... ahahhaahaaaaaa
If you were quoted...your screwed...
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Originally Posted by Ubetit,Jan 30 2008, 07:54 PM
This coming from someone that doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're" or "you are." You just pwned yourself.
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Originally Posted by shy_guyAP1,Jan 31 2008, 04:03 AM
Did he edit it? Because it seems to be right
You had a chance to check his answer. He didn't use a contraction, he used the possessive your...as if to say the screwed belonged to him.
...and I overused the pronoun him.
edit: Also, did the pilot say he was surprised? He shouldn't be allowed to fly a plane.
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From: Corpus Christi, Tx
Originally Posted by SIIK2NR,Jan 30 2008, 08:02 PM
Think of it this way....
Put the SPACE SHUTTLE on wheels.
Aim SPACE SHUTTLE at the sky
Put treadmill along side the SPACE SHUTTLE.
Turn treadmill on while rockets are boosting.
Are you telling me that the SPACE SHUTTLE will not go up?
Guess again. The treadmill will not cancel out the SHUTTLES ability to move upward because you put a treadmill along side it's wheels.
Enough said.
Put the SPACE SHUTTLE on wheels.
Aim SPACE SHUTTLE at the sky
Put treadmill along side the SPACE SHUTTLE.
Turn treadmill on while rockets are boosting.
Are you telling me that the SPACE SHUTTLE will not go up?
Guess again. The treadmill will not cancel out the SHUTTLES ability to move upward because you put a treadmill along side it's wheels.
Enough said.
Let F1 equal the thrust of the rocket engines and F2 be the treadmills force
F1 will be pointing straight up the y axis while F2 will be pointing along the x-axis of course the shuttle will take off.
Take the plane for example in a perfect environment,
F1 will be pointing along the x axis in the negative direction and F2 will be pointing in the positive x axis direction. They will cancel out, now there are variables like if the wind speed is going fast enough in the first place to go under the wings then you would have to add another force F3 going along the positive side of the x axis.
The thrust of the engines if they do not over come the speed of the treadmill the plane will stand at a stand still, the thrust from the engines does move air, but does not move air under the wings to create lift. You don't feel wind on a treadmill when you're running if there is not wind existing. My thoughts are totally here but Engines do not create air speed for lift they create speed for the plane to move through the air to increase wind speed under the wing, the engines do not make the plane fly it's the wings.
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[QUOTE=esracer,Jan 30 2008, 09:25 PM]
The thrust of the engines if they do not over come the speed of the treadmill the plane will stand at a stand still, the thrust from the engines does move air, but does not move air under the wings to create lift.
The thrust of the engines if they do not over come the speed of the treadmill the plane will stand at a stand still, the thrust from the engines does move air, but does not move air under the wings to create lift.
