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Mythbusters plan to uncover plane on conveyor belt
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Brian must have a job repairing the drivshafts in planes.
This is me you J-holes....
i posted the ****ing link to a small scale model on the last page...no need to go to the airport terminal
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wheel speed? ground speed? airspeed?
The plane will always move forward, no matter the speed of the conveyor.
[This message has been edited by Red Skye (edited 10/26/2007 3:07p).]
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but no amount of data and facts will ever convince these dummys that the plane could never take off if it is essentially not moving.
WTF?
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The plane will always move forward, no matter the speed of the conveyor.
Only with frictionless wheels which might be allowed by the question considering it already uses a magic treadmill.
Take off, eh!
NoAC,
quote:You don't buy into this "the plane won't take off" crap do you?
Only with frictionless wheels which might be allowed by the question considering it already uses a magic treadmill.
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Only with frictionless wheels which might be allowed by the question considering it already uses a magic treadmill.
The wheels will not provide enough friction to affect anything.
friction is moot
Round and Round we go...
the plane wouldnt take off if the wheels were superglued to the conveyor.
If it were a F-22 with 70,000 lbs of thrust it would.
NOT IF IT WAS CRAZY GLUE...THAT STUFF'S CRAZY!
What Goose said.
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The wheels will not provide enough friction to affect anything.
That depends on how the conveyor works.
If the wheels provide more than zero friction the conveyor can operate at a speed fast enough to prevent the plane from moving.
Several laws of physics would get broken but that's already happening with the magic conveyor belt.
Oh.. crap.. Crazy glue. I'm screwed.
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If the wheels provide more than zero friction the conveyor can operate at a speed fast enough to prevent the plane from moving.
Essentially this would be the same as gluing the wheels down with crazy glue, except you are using friction and a **** ton of conveyor energy. So, with that, i would say, yeah, that would prevent liftoff. But under normal conditions, even with a giant conveyor and super awesome bearings and rubber on the wheels....it ain't happening...she's taking off.
The plane will take off a non-magical conveyor belts with friction wheels.
This is the conveyor in question - not sure how you fit a plane on it in the first place.
Cut a hole in the box ...
Do they transport the parts to make conveyor belts on conveyor belts?
Put the plane in that box
they are transported on a plane that took off from a conveyor belt.
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The plane will take off a non-magical conveyor belts with friction wheels.
What if its on the conveyor and a flock of geese get sucked into the jet engines...the conveyor is then unmooted?
If it were a flock of seagulls, it would still run.
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This guy is the pilot?
jets suck.
OK... Will the plane take off, Yes.
But lets look at it from the another prospective.
If you put a plane on a runway, with the engine off, and you make the conveyor belt move say 20 mph in the opposite direction the plane is pointed.
I think we can all agree that the plane will move at 20 mph backwards.
Ok, You start the engines and apply just enough power to overcome the friction of the wheels thus causing the plane to stand still.
Now as erroneously mentioned on a earlier post conveyor of 20 mph does not equal engine trust of 20 mph.
Now I think we can all agree that the conveyor belt is moving and the engine is producing thrust but the plane is at a stand still.
Now this is the difference in the two arguments, the "will not take off" believers think that the conveyor belt could create enough friction to keep the plane stationary no matter what the thrust, and the "will take off" believers think that this is not reality and the engine thrust will always be greater that what the friction could be allow the plane to move.
Or in other words you're both right, in your own little worlds.
But lets look at it from the another prospective.
If you put a plane on a runway, with the engine off, and you make the conveyor belt move say 20 mph in the opposite direction the plane is pointed.
I think we can all agree that the plane will move at 20 mph backwards.
Ok, You start the engines and apply just enough power to overcome the friction of the wheels thus causing the plane to stand still.
Now as erroneously mentioned on a earlier post conveyor of 20 mph does not equal engine trust of 20 mph.
Now I think we can all agree that the conveyor belt is moving and the engine is producing thrust but the plane is at a stand still.
Now this is the difference in the two arguments, the "will not take off" believers think that the conveyor belt could create enough friction to keep the plane stationary no matter what the thrust, and the "will take off" believers think that this is not reality and the engine thrust will always be greater that what the friction could be allow the plane to move.
Or in other words you're both right, in your own little worlds.
I think it wont take off because the engineers get their panties in a wad really easily.
Wadded Panties are moot.
Not if they are on the floor next to my bed.
Yes, sorta, if you can somehow make the airplane stand still, it would not take off. But that is impossible in this situation.
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The plane will take off a non-magical conveyor belts with friction wheels.
A non magical conveyor belt can't operate as the question describes.
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