Lets say you have an airplane sitting on a conveyor belt. As the airplane fires its engines and starts to move forward the conveyor belt matches its speed in the opposite direction. Question is will the airplane take off? Yes or No? and why? There is a correct answer.

 

wouldn't that jus **** up the bottom of the airplane?

 

why would it fek up the bottom of the plane? it still has landing gear to take off from...

 

It would be the same as if it were moving down the runway. once the air increases to the point where the air is moving over the wing @ a diff pressure than the bottem blah blah it would take off

 

not quite.

This is just like a car on a dyno. There will be no air moving past the wings (unless its real windy). the wheels will be spinning real fast though.

 

^ exactly...
or else Aircraft carriers could be alot smaller LOL...

wait they have to land too [:@]


but they need the air to create "lift"

 

I would say no it would not take-off since there is no wind too create lift. It would be very unstable since the the plane is creating force with nothing to stablize it.

 

o so the wheels are connected to the conveyor belt. gotcha. then you would have a little dyno set up for a jet kinda. so no it wouldnt take off because its not actually moving so no wind really goes over/under the wings

 

airplanes are not cars...

 

yea well they can land cause they catch that big hook on the "rope" to slow them down

and no it wouldn't take off

although it seems so simple and stupid that I keep thinking I might be wrong....or it's just a really easy "riddle"