it's a slow day in the office, anyone got a link to the stw dweeb fest par excellence ?
can't find it in the search.
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plane on a conveyerbelt
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It won't
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Picolax is funnier
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All you need to know is that it will
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i need to know the conditions involved. is it a big long runway sized conveyer belt or is it on a treadmill ?
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i need to know the conditions involved. is it a big long runway sized conveyer belt or is it on a treadmill ?
Doesn't matter really. On a short treadmill it will move forward, fall off the end and then take off as normal.
On a long runway sized treadmill it will move forward and take off as normal.(amazingly some people still don't get this
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Thinking about it. The best way to solve this one is to lobby the government so that Heathrow Runway 3 is built as a massive conveyor belt. That would settle it once and for all.
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I think the original thread was lost years ago.
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I think the original thread was lost years ago.
I think it has been discussed on pretty much every chat forum on the internet at some point or other - google should provide a few good snippets
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Badger badger badger badger . . . .
best thread ever!
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Baby Robin on a conveyor belt ?
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Now thats funny.
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I can't believe the pilot in that Mythbusters video thought it wouldn't work
You'd hope that pilots would have a better understand of how planes fly!Posted 1 year ago # -
GrahamS - Why? I have been using computers for a living for years and other than basic stuff about how they work I'd be in no more position to explain how they really work than the next man. My best guess is magic.
That said I do know how planes fly and why the "discussion" is so comically stupid so perhaps it's a shit analogy
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Well yeah - I don't expect pilots to be aerospace engineers - but I had hoped they'd understand fairly rudimentary principles of flight.
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The mythbusters experiment doesn't really match the true "spirit" of the plane on a conveyer question though as the conveyer is undergoing travel in a direction (rather than being stationary but rotating)
Air movement in and around the wings generates lift, so if the plane is moving, because the conveyer is, as in the mythbusters experiment, if you're lucky, at some point, lift is greater than gravity, and the plane will take off.
The proper test should be when the plane is on a stationary but still rotating conveyer...
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The proper test should be when the plane is on a stationary but still rotating conveyer...
You don't understand this, do you?
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I included the
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The proper test should be when the plane is on a stationary but still rotating conveyer...
I can answer this.
No matter if the plane is on a treadmill, Swiss ball or excerise bike. It'll only take off if its moving. Or it's very, very windy.
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The proper test should be when the plane is on a stationary but still rotating conveyer...
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What's this about?
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What's this about?
Trust me. You really don't want to know.
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GrahamS
"The proper test should be when the plane is on a stationary but still rotating conveyer... "
Eek! Worded that badly.... The proper test should be when the plane is on a conveyer that is stationary relative to the earth, but the belt on which the plane is sitting on is still rotating...
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what if a delorean was on a treadmill that was doing 88mph?
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I can't believe the pilot in that Mythbusters video thought it wouldn't work
You'd hope that pilots would have a better understand of how planes fly!Pilot was 100% correct - test protocol was 100% incompetent!
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Pilot was 100% correct - test protocol was 100% incompetent!
Explain (or refer to meme above ^^)
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Easiest way to explain - what do you think would have happened to the aircraft's position in relation to a specfic point on the ground if the pilot had not fired up the engine as the car accelerated?
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Well it would have moved backwards with the tarp, though probably at a slower speed than the tarp.
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though probably at a slower speed than the tarp.
Why so? (once you take the initial inertia out of the equation).
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what if a delorean was on a treadmill that was doing 88mph?
Do we know if the flux capacitor drives the wheels or generates thrust?
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