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Old 11-28-2005, 07:32 AM   #80
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Nahh it wont take off. There will be no lift. The air has to be moving beneath the wings of the airplane to generate lift and for an airplane to take flight. There's also that whole drag thing that i think people forgot to mention. Lift has to overcome drag for the airplane to take off. There wont be either of those because the airplane is stationary on the belt however. Later induced drag doesnt matter as much, and you should be more converned with parasite drag. So plane on a conveyer belt = no lift = airplane just sits there. Even if you increase the angle of attack (up to a certain point) on the airplane that is sitting on a conveyer belt which techincally requires less speed for it to take off it still wont, because the greater the angle of attack the more induced drag you have.
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