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01-31-2008, 10:33 AM
CaptainHenreh Wrote:Mythbusters proves that a plane on a conveyor belt will take off. So for those of you who watched this, how did t hey construct the conveyor belt, or was it more of a theoretical kind of thing that they tested with smaller models?
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01-31-2008, 10:44 AM
They took a tarp (a looooooooong tarp) and drug it from a truck while an ultralight stood on it.
They determined the speed required by the ultralight to take off, and ran the "treadmill" at that speed. But they also did a dozen scale demonstrations, and showed why it works. (I.E. A plane is not a car, the wheels are just the interface with the ground, the primary motivation is still via a plane's propeller which does not interact with the ground in any way.)
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01-31-2008, 10:59 AM
Who can look at the poll respondents and tell us?
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01-31-2008, 11:02 AM
Apoc Wrote:Who can look at the poll respondents and tell us? You should be able to look through the thread and make an accounting.
1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442
01-31-2008, 11:07 AM
That sounds like work. Why do work when someone can just look in one place and do it for us. Gosh!
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
01-31-2008, 11:08 AM
CaptainHenreh Wrote:the primary motivation is still via a plane's propeller which does not interact with the ground in any way.) and if it does, you've got some other problems to deal with first
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01-31-2008, 03:00 PM
Maengelito Wrote:CaptainHenreh Wrote:the primary motivation is still via a plane's propeller which does not interact with the ground in any way.) OH NOES!!! ![[Image: beforeimpact.jpg]](http://www.thatsnotnews.com/photos/beforeimpact.jpg)
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Sgt. Slaughter 
01-31-2008, 03:27 PM
That picture is begging for a FAIL caption!
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