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If I wasnt clear enough - do the said experiment with open palm - plane resting on the palm. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />


The plane will power off your palm(WITH THE AIR PROPULSION SYSTEM), and fall onto the ground.

Put the RC plane on the treadmill / runway, and let it power up, and it will gain speed irrelevant to the treadmills reverse speed, and generate enough airspeed to lift off. Its not gonna happen instantly.

Say it takes 120 (windspeed)knots to generate enough lift to lift off... the treadmill will be going EXACTLY that speed in reverse as the plane lifts off of it.

The WHEELS WILL NOT HOLD THE PLANE FROM GOING FOWARD.

a Conventional car will not be able to move at all

a JET powered car would be able to move because the propulsion is not comming from the treadmill.

Can it get any more simple? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

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