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Originally posted by TJ:

Hmm...the fact that MadMan thinks the wheels are unimportant explains why he doesn't understand that they are the single MOST important point...

MadMan thinks (As do many others...not just him...) that somehow that the tires rotating is because of the belt.

He even thinks that a person next to the belt would see it spinning, but see the plane standing still.
I don't know who is worse, you or Jeff.

You don't bother to read what is written, and when you seemingly claim to read what is written your comprehension is the same as the groundspeed in the scenario, which is zero.

The wheels ARE NOT the single most important point. When are you going to face that fact? They are completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Since the hypothetical scenario tells us that the conveyor matches the plane's speed ... that is all we need to know. The hypothethical doesn't give a damn how the plane got it's speed or how it is maintaining it's speed. All the hypothetical gives a damn about is that the conveyor matches the speed of the plane. Nothing else is important at this point.

In a nutshell... all we care about is aerodynamic principles. We are concerned with the relative velocity of the plane in the scenario vs. the relative velocity of the same plane in a conventional runway takeoff.