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Old 06-04-2009, 05:06 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee View Post
You view the hypothetical as inviolable, the way you read the wording the airplane CANNOT be allowed to move forward or the conveyor is failing in it's [ambiguously] stated mission. If a plane can't move forward it can't take off. And if it takes wheels with Herculean rolling resistance sufficient to counteract the thrust of 4 jumbo jet engines so be it.

However, hypotheticals generally assume [unless stated otherwise] negligible or no friction [rolling resistance]. And in that case the interactions of the wheels and the conveyor are akin to those of molecules flowing under a flying craft or in the water or ice under skids or pontoons on a thusly equipped craft, and they are irrelevant in the dominant force of forward thrust by the engines.
Exactly. The way the question was worded originally would result in a take-off. Then, during the thread, all these conditions kept getting added in that made it ridiculous (magic tires and bearings, materials that can somehow add incredible horizontal forces through friction, etc).
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