Can the plane take off?

ttmott said:
O I dunno - were you around during the pig on the boat discussions?
But absolutely the plywood needs to be on the list.
And how about the hot tub cut in the 630SSS?
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I missed the hot tub! Tell me more.
 
Blueone said:
Where is @Great Lakes …. He started this gong show… he should be held accountable …. It’s always the guys with one head that cause all the shit
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You’re on the lakes
It’s probably to cold to work on the boat
She needed some way to kill some time
It’s 80 in SC today I’m busy cleaning the boat
 
Ok…here’s another one..:
If you’re in a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights….would anything happen??

I don’t know the answer, you’d have to ask Steven Wright
 
bajturner said:
As long as you keep your foot on the brakes or throttle back the engines, correct?
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Not correct. With engines at max thrust and you start to release the brake, any forward momentum the engines produce is transferred directly to the wheels and the treadmill matches the momentum in an opposite direction. The plane remains stationary.
 
So if the treadmill was made of ice and the plane had ski’s, would it stay in place?
 
RBB said:
air speed across wing gives lift, since on a conveyor belt makes plane stationary I do not see lift off happening. Surely I am missing something here.
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You gotta be careful saying things like that. A couple pages back I did and they stuck me on a rocket and lit it.:eek: Of course that isn't as bad as the guy in a different thread wanted to put me on an ice berg and push me out to sea because he felt old folks on SS were leaches.
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Woody said:
You gotta be careful saying things like that. A couple pages back I did and they stuck me on a rocket and lit it.:eek: Of course that isn't as bad as the guy in a different thread wanted to put me on an ice berg and push me out to sea because he felt old folks on SS were leaches.
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Why are the coyote and road runner cartoons not on reruns ?

 
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LTD.330 said:
Not correct. With engines at max thrust and you start to release the brake, any forward momentum the engines produce is transferred directly to the wheels and the treadmill matches the momentum in an opposite direction. The plane remains stationary.
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No it doesn’t. It moves forward. You have to remember that there is nothing but a free spinning bearing between the plane and the moving conveyor. If you hit the wheel brakes in the air, does the plane stop going forward?
 
LTD.330 said:
Not correct. With engines at max thrust and you start to release the brake, any forward momentum the engines produce is transferred directly to the wheels and the treadmill matches the momentum in an opposite direction. The plane remains stationary.
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No. That is the misunderstanding you have, and it a profound one. No power is transferred to the wheels.

How does power get to the wheels?
 
RBB said:
air speed across wing gives lift, since on a conveyor belt makes plane stationary I do not see lift off happening. Surely I am missing something here.
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The conveyor belt would only keep the plane stationary if the power from the engines were directed to the wheels and not to thrust. That's the key part!
 
bajturner said:
The conveyor belt would only keep the plane stationary if the power from the engines were directed to the wheels and not to thrust. That's the key part!
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how would the plane advance to move if the the conveyor was keeping up with the forward thrust.
Its puzzling
 
RBB said:
how would the plane advance to move if the the conveyor was keeping up with the forward thrust.
Its puzzling
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There’s no connection between the force that is pushing the plane forward and the conveyor belt. The belt can be moving as fas as it wants and the only force it will place on the plane is the frictional force found in the wheel bearings. Once the engines overpower that force the plane will move forward.

The wheels spin freely. They could spin as fast as they want and it doesn’t stop the ability of the engine to move the plane forward.

this video is only 3 minutes. Please Watch it.
 
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