Plane on conveyor belt

[Fex2005]

Heads up! (for those that havent seen it)

Plane on a conveyor belt on Mythbusters NOW!

Sky channel 521

Edited by Fex2005 on Thursday 1st May 22:35

[Jderh]

No. No. No. No. Not again.

[Graebob]

Oh sweet moses

[Fex2005]

Whoops, sorry

[toomuchbeer]

noooooo run for the hills...... were all doomed.!!!!!

[ITB]

I'm still not convinced

[King Herald]

Come on, not again, we ALL know it won't take off, so why argue about it.

[Mutley]

ARGGG!!!!! nnooo please, I'll even go to see Celine Dion with my mother, but PLEASE, not the plane on a conveyor again

[Muntu]

Hmmm, I must have missed this one......

Does it take off?

[Blukoo]

I still can't believe there was any debate about this one.
As soon as i thought about it, i knew it would fly.

Edited by Blukoo on Thursday 1st May 22:41

[sstein]

Muntu said:

Hmmm, I must have missed this one......

Does it take off?

Of course it does!

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Stuart

[Skywalker]

...or maybe it won't

[ITB]

It crashes and they both die....so no it doesnt work

[OwenK]

If it was a car with wings attached, no, it wouldn't take off.

However since it's powered by jets/propellors, the only thing they push against are the air. The conveyor belt could be running at Mach 200 in the wrong direction and it would still take off. The only thing the wheels do on a plane is to stop the fuselage scraping on the ground.

Imagine if the plane had skis instead of wheels. Much easier to visualise that way.

[King Herald]

OwenK said:

If it was a car with wings attached, no, it wouldn't take off.

However since it's powered by jets/propellors, the only thing they push against are the air. The conveyor belt could be running at Mach 200 in the wrong direction and it would still take off. The only thing the wheels do on a plane is to stop the fuselage scraping on the ground.

Imagine if the plane had skis instead of wheels. Much easier to visualise that way.

Come on, come on, we don't need to muddy the waters with facts and logic.

[Skywalker]

I won't mention that aerofoil design of the wings that are specifically designed to get the most out of the Bernoulli Effect and provide lift.

[stigmundfreud]

Blukoo said:

I still can't believe there was any debate about this one.
As soon as i thought about it, i knew it would fly.

Edited by Blukoo on Thursday 1st May 22:41

the experiment is hardly accurate thoush is it?

if you had a jet plane on a belt the belt itself was able to match the planes forward speed thus meaning the plane was effectively not moving it would never take off

[ralphk]

stigmundfreud said:

Blukoo said:

I still can't believe there was any debate about this one.
As soon as i thought about it, i knew it would fly.

Edited by Blukoo on Thursday 1st May 22:41

the experiment is hardly accurate thoush is it?

if you had a jet plane on a belt the belt itself was able to match the planes forward speed thus meaning the plane was effectively not moving it would never take off

crikey

[james_tigerwoods]

What if it was a Hawker Siddeley Harrier???

[marshalla]

Yes, yes, yes, all well and good, but let's move the debate along a bit - what about a boomerang thrown from a conveyor belt in orbit in a vacuum ?