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Originally posted by XPLORx4:
That's actually not true. The plane could move all the way down the runway and still not take off if the wheel bearing friction was high enough to prevent the plane from acquiring enough airspeed.
Since the coeffecient of friction between 2 objects is constant, if the wheel bearing friciton is high enough to prevent the plane from taking off on the conveyor, it's high enough to prevent the plane from taking off on a runway - which violates the assumption that the plane would take off on a normal runway
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