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Originally Posted by Paul@dbtuned
Holy fucking stupid shit.
The wheels are free spinning, ans as such, cannot transmit any torque to the aircraft!!!
The wheels play no part of this problem.
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Hurray for basic intelligence!
Ya'll can argue all day long about the wording of the question, but at the end of the day, you still can't explain how any wheel/treadmill interaction can create an appreciable force that could overcome the thrust of the plane's engine and prevent it from taking off.
And that's really the answer. A treadmill cannot affect a plane's takeoff, because the plane's thrust is from the prop/jet pushing against the air, not through the wheels to the ground/treadmill/ice/water/giant block of jello/etc. Sure in the real world, there's friction in the bearings, and rolling resistance of the tire, etc, but nothing that's at all significant in proportion to the engine thrust.
How this argument ever got so big is beyond me... I think people just decided to argue about it 'cause it's the internet and that's what people do, but somewhere along the line the people playing devil's advocate started believing their own bullshit and ended up convincing a bunch of stubborn retards with popsicles that the plane couldn't take off.
