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Originally Posted by SalaciousTunare

The plane will NEVER take off assuming the treadmill can infinitely match the wheels of the plane.

Essentially all you would have is a plane slowly lurching forward, the treadmill increases speed to compensate, the wheels lurch forwards faster, the treadmill increases thus faster.

Theoretically the plane would never take off, the only force being horizontal thrust, with zero wind current over the wings.

The only jet that would take off would be a harrier or f-22.

You must realize there is no vertical thrust in an airplane's engines, there is only vertical thrust in it's wings.

All this of course assumes an exponential increase in speed of both the treadmill and the wheels.

Think of it this way, if a plane is tethered to the ground with a chain, the fucking plane will not just start flapping around in the air while attached to the fucking ground. The plane must have adequate ground speed to reach the critical low pressure air current over the wing while having high pressure under the wing to create lift. This lift is ENTIRELY environmental, it has nothing to do with the engine or propellor, both of which create horizontal lift only. (again Harrier and F-22 aside which both have vertical takeoff)

shut the fuck up