Will it fly?

[Kaan]

Kaan, I think you're missing that the wheels aren't "connected" to the movement of the plane. The frictional losses considered are marginal, at best. You could move the threadmill under the plane at whatever speed you wanted and hold the plane in place with a glorified chain. The moment the thrusters activate the plane begins to move forward and, proportional to foward velocity, lift is generated.

take head out of ass... the plane never gets to move forward according to the problem at hand... if you dont move forward then you have no air under the wings.

i guess we'll see on mythbusters.