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Originally Posted by Mikeinsmd  There is a lengthy thread on it in this forum. The plane will fly. You all are being distracted by the wheels and treadmill. The wheels are not providing propulsion, the jet engines are. The wheels can spin to pieces and it's irrelavant.
The engines generate the thrust that pushes the plane forward. Once the engines push the plane fast enough, the plane flies.
What happens at the wheels is irrelavant. |
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Originally Posted by bcp your theory is only good if the thrust to move the plane is applied to the wheels.
but its not.
In your theory, as soon as a plane took off it would land again because it lost thrust when the wheels left the ground. |
Damn - now I am going to have to read!
Or go talk to one of my Aerospace Engineers...
I look at this as the plane is trying to move forward @ 500, but the
contact point for it to move forward, its wheels, was moving 500 in the opposite direction not allowing the plane to move forward because it cannot - but my bull-head is stuck with a picture and concept so I have to go and investigate
How in the heck did we get here?
