#607575 - 13/11/0707:48 AMRe: Airplane on a treadmill question
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How can the plane have any speed to match if it's stationary?
Your rope-driven-conveyor is bogus, as that totally changes the scenario and adds a whole lot more friction to overcome. Besides, a traditional drivetrain in a piston-prop might work to drive a conveyor, but how would you accomplish that with a turboprop or jet? A big honkin windmill? still wouldn't keep the plane on the ground.