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re: Can this 747 take off?
Posted on 4/10/24 at 4:17 pm to FieldEngineer
Posted on 4/10/24 at 4:17 pm to FieldEngineer
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lol did not read that correctly
Given the source, I wonder if it is deliberately phrased shittily.
As written, the plane will actually not take off.
Not because of negating airspeed, but because the speed of the conveyor would go in a positive feedback loop and go so fast that the wheels would spin themselves into destruction and ground the plane.
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Posted on 4/10/24 at 6:15 pm to Volvagia
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As written, the plane will actually not take off.
That was my point in the OG thread 15 years ago about this. The way it’s written, if the conveyor truly does “match the speed of the wheels” then it can’t take off. In reality, that isn’t possible and a plane can very easily take off on a conveyor. My issue was always with how it was written.
The Mythbusters episode on this was pretty cool the way they did it.
This post was edited on 4/10/24 at 6:42 pm
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