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#1 This is Cool » Will this plane take off? » 2008-01-18 20:27:21

crazy 8's
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This (trick) question was posted in the "general" section of a photography forum that I frequent. It has turned into a very long thread.

"Let's say you have a single engine airplane sitting on a runway that is 3000 feet long, and through some great engineering the runway is actually a giant treadmill. It's engineered so that when the plane starts to move forward the runway moves in the opposite direction at exactly the same speed., i.e. as the airplane's wheels pick up speed the runway matches it.

Will the plane get airborne?"

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