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Well ... when is it?

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Link:http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9801967776/m/5321919039/p/1

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Airplane Hour
(Weds., December 12 at 9 PM ET/PT)
Adam and Jamie find out if either of them can safely land a Boeing 747-400 on a runway in varying weather conditions. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory and Grant risk life and limb to investigate skydiving myths regularly featured in Hollywood action films. Is it possible to catch up with someone in freefall if that person jumps out a plane before you do? Can you really hold a conversation during freefall? And would you survive if you opened your parachute only a few feet off the ground? Finally, Adam and Jamie carefully navigate their way through a myth that has baffled everyone from web bloggers to pilots. If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and the belt is matching that speed in the opposite direction, can the plane take off? Extensive small-scale testing with a super treadmill and a nearly uncontrollable model airplane don't completely resolve the myth, so our flight cadets supersize the myth with help from a willing pilot and his Ultralight flying machine.

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Any one that studies aerodynamics knows that once you start moving the ground its a whole new ball game.

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So if the conveyor belt is going to opposite direction of the plane, at the same speed the plane would be going, is the plane going to be sitting still? And no, I will not read 30 pages of posts to find out.

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