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MaggieL · 12-09-2006, 02:24 PM

I'm still trying to envision a treadmill that applies as much force to an aircraft through friction at the wheel bearings as the engines do grabbing at the air.

Without setting fire to the wheelbearings.

Especially interesting in the case of a rocketplane like the Bell X-1, which not many people know was capable of a runway takeoff.

I wonder how fast the treadmill would have to go...:-)

12-09-2006, 02:24 PM	#257
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I'm still trying to envision a treadmill that applies as much force to an aircraft through friction at the wheel bearings as the engines do grabbing at the air. Without setting fire to the wheelbearings. Especially interesting in the case of a rocketplane like the Bell X-1, which not many people know was capable of a runway takeoff. I wonder how fast the treadmill would have to go...:-) __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."