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Originally Posted by glatt
Good point. The question doesn't clearly state that there is an atmosphere, so a plane wouldn't work anyway. No lift in a vacuum.
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Nor combustion w/o supplied oxygen.
Another example of the unimportance of wheels relative to a plane's taking off.
Ski planes and water planes have no wheels, hell, if a plane were lying on its belly on a greased treadmill it would take off.