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Originally Posted by PARAGON
WTF are you talking about. Who said anything about Mass.
You really don't get it. You are not comparing apples and apples.
Two completely different questions.
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Hi there is a question going around on a remote control plane forum that goes like this:
"Imagine a plane is sat on the beginning of a massive conveyor
belt/travelator type arrangement, as wide and as long as a runway,
and intends to take off. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly
match the speed of the wheels at any given time, moving in the
opposite direction of rotation.
There is no wind.
Can the plane take off?"
is only different from this
A plane is standing on a runway that can move (like a giant conveyor belt). This conveyor has a control system that tracks the plane's speed and tunes the speed of the conveyor to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction) instantly.
in the fact that it's about a model aircraft. The wheels have nothing to do with this problem.
It's about physics of thrust, mass, and lift and how they pertain to the aircraft.