danielcw189 t1_ist4rsy wrote
Reply to comment by Admetus 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
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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