corrado33 t1_issxase wrote
Reply to comment by Reddit_Is_Bollox in TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing. by Key-Code-4296
The treadmill would NOT stop an airplane from taking off is the point I'm making.
Admetus t1_ist33xj wrote
As long as airspeed is high enough. Put a plane on a treadmill in a wind tunnel I'm sure it can take off.
It's probably a gap in education regarding physics making people assume that relative ground speed has anything to do with taking off.
danielcw189 t1_ist4rsy wrote
Put a plane on a treadmill in the normal world. let the plane try to take off. It will.
Wonderful_Roof1739 t1_isuwfq5 wrote
I loved the episode of Mythbusters where they tried to do this at scale
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