Thread: The "Plane on a Treadmill" Question
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Old 12-07-2006, 11:17 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by glatt
Picture a different scene.
No, picture the scene we're talking about: a plane hopping right into the air, straight off the ground. (Commercial jetliners are not designed to do this!) And then say to yourself "oh, gee, what an incredible dumbass I was for even entertaining the fact that this might be possible" . . .

Quote:
Originally Posted by glatt
Here, the plane isn't pushing against the runway, it's pushing against the air. The runway doesn't matter.
And the "pushing" doesn't matter, either. Only the forward motion does. There is no forward motion according to the question.
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