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Old 04-20-2008, 02:07 PM   #43
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wheel speed is irrelevant. As the propellers PULL the plane forward(that kinda what propellers do), the plane will move forward in "space". yes wheels will accelerate forward and tread mill will then move backwards cancelling "wheelspeed" however plane will STILL be pulled forward because movement action is based on the air, not ground. The wheels and tread mill will obviously increase in speed too BUT that wheelspeed will increase rapidly and exponentionally. All in all the tread mill would need to be the length of a runway, it would just be spinning the wheels at an incredible rate of speed until the plane has enough lift to break contact with the ground.
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