Plane on a conveyor belt

[GarageAlchemist]

AcesHigh;89557 wrote:
You are making the assumption that it's the speed of the plane making it take off, and this is incorrect. Speed is all relative. When you are walking inside a moving train with it, you aren't going at 60 miles per hour. You're going at a meter a second.

Actually this is inaccurate, as you are moving 60 plus miles an hour, if the train crashed, you'd still be going 60 miles an hour until you hit something.

[Bassplayer]

^^^^ yeah thats Newtons 1st law. Also if you're in a train and its going 60mph and you're walking 1m/s then depending on the direction of the velocities you're going 60mph+1m/s or 60mph-1m's

And Grr I totaly get you're whole physics explanation, I just have too much of a life to sit down and be a scientist. You're science makes sense for the most part its just you're forgetting lift and also Bernoulli's principle. Theres enough thrust to make it fly but there's no lift.

[GarageAlchemist]

yea, you worded that better than I

[weshole]

GnArKiLl;203130 wrote:
its just like a car on a dyno.. strap wings on you car and see if it will fly....................negative

Hardly the same thing. On a car, the wheels propel the vehicle. On a plane, its the prop or turbine.

[KA-T_240]

Bassplayer;203157 wrote:
^^^^ yeah thats Newtons 1st law. Also if you're in a train and its going 60mph and you're walking 1m/s then depending on the direction of the velocities you're going 60mph+1m/s or 60mph-1m's

And Grr I totaly get you're whole physics explanation, I just have too much of a life to sit down and be a scientist. You're science makes sense for the most part its just you're forgetting lift and also Bernoulli's principle. Theres enough thrust to make it fly but there's no lift.

can you explain why there is no lift?

[bubba]

^ exactly...the plane is moving forward at the same speed as it would on a runway same airflow, lift etc...all the conveyor belt does is make the wheels spin twice as fast...so unless the wheels blow and it crashes and burns it will fly, lol

[zbrown]

Ha.... I just threw the "Gary is a homo" thing in there to piss you off

I will have to go back and read your physics lesson cuz i didn't read this whole thread

And i still think it is easy for people to be confused and think that the plane cannot/is not moving forward in space

[zbrown]

KA-T_240;203163 wrote:
can you explain why there is no lift?

he is saying there is no lift on the wings if the plane isn't moving forward (he is correct)(prop plane will though)...... he thinks it is not moving forward

[GhettoFabulousCRX]

I rethunk this for a while today. There is no way the belt will hold it back. But the start of this myth was so planes could take off in smaller areas ( off boats and crap ) Wich is not possible because the belt in no way effects the speed or airflow around the aircraft. So basically a conveyor belt will not affect the plane in any way. The take off distance will be exactly the same just with the wheels spinning super fast. I thought you guys meant if the conveyor belts hauling ass and the plane just happens to be on it rolling it'll take off.

[DaveH]

[Guest]

GhettoFabulousCRX;203186 wrote:
I rethunk this for a while today. There is no way the belt will hold it back. But the start of this myth was so planes could take off in smaller areas ( off boats and crap ) Wich is not possible because the belt in no way effects the speed or airflow around the aircraft. So basically a conveyor belt will not affect the plane in any way. The take off distance will be exactly the same just with the wheels spinning super fast. I thought you guys meant if the conveyor belts hauling ass and the plane just happens to be on it rolling it'll take off.

Please show proof of said statement that the conveyor will help shorten the runway space needed. It wasn't part of the original question.

Other than that, glad you finally got it.

[GnArKiLl]

well they are gonna do this on mythbusters tomorrow at 9

[JN210]

I just looked and it is gonna be at 8....today....maybe its different for different tv stations and such?

[Guest]

What I think is funny is that I posted the leaked answer from Mythbusters and the "No" responses are still going up...lol

[Parker]

3 minutes till n00b's get pwn3d!!!

[KA-T_240]

I just bumped the 2 year old thread on MNSC. 36% on there think plane takes off.

[weshole]

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[JN210]

Its On Now!!!!!!, I Say Fly!!!!!

[Parker]

looking pretty bad for those non-believers

[inspector01]

I can understand not getting it right away, but if you still think it won't take off after it has been explained, then you are retarded.