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What you are failing to see is that anytime and outside force makes more work to move the plane foward, the conveyor matches that force with equal and opposite work.


It would only be "busy" work... and have no effect.

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It'll never go anywhere no matter how far your ignorance leads you to believe otherwise.


Hmmmmm...... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />

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Again - read the more eloquent link I just posted.


Eloquence = fact?

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I will be going to my folks house up north one of these weekends.

They have a fancy treadmill.

I will buy a cheap RC plane.

The experiment wont be perfect obviously...I can't control the speed relative to the plane, there will be wind kicked up from the treadmill...blah blah.

But I'll bring the vid cam and try to make my point - you say it doesnt matter how fast the treadmill is spinning - it will take off - so maybe we'll start there. Maybe I'll put something over the extra tread to keep the wind down - since it won't be moving forward anyway

And I will post the whole thing on YouTube and settle this for the entire world once and for all.


Do that...... and if the plane takes off, please edit the second statement above..... If it doesn't, we'll wallow in our ignorance, trying to figure out how your eloquence hoodoo'd us. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Frank <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

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