Registered: 23/03/01
Posts: 1906
Loc: San Jose, CA
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Originally posted by XPLORx4: If the plane's engines were throttled up only enough to equalize the friction produced by the wheel bearings, then, yes, you could have a plane sitting motionless on a moving conveyor belt.
HOWEVER, since the original scenario specifies that the plane must have some kind of speed so that the conveyor can reverse-match it, how do you want to measure speed? In order for the conveyor to even get going, the plane would have to have some kind of ACTUAL speed...