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Anonymous
Something was troubling me earlier, but now it's been corrected.
1. In a perfect world, the wheels on the airplane would be frictionless. That means that when the treadmill starts and accelerates, the plane does not move at all. This, then, would be just like the rocketeer movie, where the rocket can push the pickup regardless of the car engine.
However, the confusion here is about what actually visually happens. In a frictionless world, the treadmill cannot counteract the velocity gained from engine thrust, no matter how fast it is spinning. So the plane will zoom down a treadmill just like a runway somewhat faster than normal because of the absence of friction from the wheels. Of course it will lift.
However, in the real world, the speed of the treadmill does matter, but the engine governing the wheels need not be running. A treadmill spinning insanely fast will create enough friction in the wheel mechanism to prevent certain real engines from gaining enough acceleration to take off. In fact, the airplane can actually fall off backwards into the set of weights behind it while the other more experienced planes laugh and continue their random height stamina routine while the jets increase the reps on their deadlifts.
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