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firehawk1120 · 04-20-2008, 09:49 AM

i agree with the people argueing that it should NOT take off. The problem I have with the mythbusters show is the tarp that they put under the plane allows the wheels to maintain contact with the ground and allowing the plane to travel at a different speed then the tarp.

If you are on a treadmill running at 1 mph do you go anywhere??? NO. BUT, if you are on the treadmill and it's going at 1 mph and you start running faster what happens you run into the bar in front of you until you slow down. SO, if the ground was actually moving at the same speed as the plane trying to move forward the plane should remain stationary, IT DIDN'T it was moving forward proving the speed of the plane was greater then that of the tarp being pulled by the car.

In conclusion those people are doing an incorrect test and should know better.

04-20-2008, 09:49 AM	#41
firehawk1120 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,357 iTrader: (1)	i agree with the people argueing that it should NOT take off. The problem I have with the mythbusters show is the tarp that they put under the plane allows the wheels to maintain contact with the ground and allowing the plane to travel at a different speed then the tarp. If you are on a treadmill running at 1 mph do you go anywhere??? NO. BUT, if you are on the treadmill and it's going at 1 mph and you start running faster what happens you run into the bar in front of you until you slow down. SO, if the ground was actually moving at the same speed as the plane trying to move forward the plane should remain stationary, IT DIDN'T it was moving forward proving the speed of the plane was greater then that of the tarp being pulled by the car. In conclusion those people are doing an incorrect test and should know better. Last edited by firehawk1120; 04-20-2008 at 09:49 AM.