No, that isn't the problem. The problem is people don't understand what causes flight, and flight mechanics. Flight ONLY happens when air pressure is less on the top of the wings than the bottom. Speed causes this, but only because it's the most efficient method we can make it happen.
This is why cars have spoilers that look like an inverted plane wing, it keeps the car on the GROUND. The air pressure is less on the *bottom* of the spoilers, and greater on the top. Alternatively, plane wings cause air to take a longer path when going over the top than under the bottom, which causes flight.
This has nothing to do with wheels, nothing to do with speed itself, 100% to do with the wings and air pressure.
That's not what OP's image is asking, and you know that. That changes the rules of the experiment.
If you can eventually get your aircraft up to speed required for takeoff, it would have already gone off the runway. You would need the crazy guy's "infinite runway" to make this happen, and you would just be doing this the hard way. You would require much more fuel, much more energy to fight the force of the runway, much more distance required for takeoff, much more time. This is the least pragmatic approach one can take towards flight.
Isaiah Diaz
You're confused. got it right. The plane will still accelerate forward. The moving runway will have only minor impact on the take-off. The aircraft will take off.
Brandon Cruz
yes, this. Only thing that will stop the plane from taking off is have the treadmill spin fast enough to put some friction force on the wheel to cancel out the force produced by the engines
Leo Nguyen
>the conveyor belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels
the problem is clear.
Dominic Lewis
The question is ambiguous. It asserts that the conveyor is preventing the plane from accelerating, but provides no mechanism for it to do so.
Asher Price
I say No. The plane would be stationary so not enough air would pass the wings to give lift. When taking off planes built up speed over time and distance, but on the belt it would have only what little air the jets would draw past the wings.
Someone one day will do it with a toy jet, cause people have too much money and free time.
Gabriel Stewart
People who think the airplane will take off also must believe you would feel wind on your face if you put your bicycle on a treadmill and pedaled really hard
Wyatt Carter
If the belt is long enough for the airplane to build up enough speed, it flies
The belt in the picture is insufficient, though, the plane would just roll off
Charles Ramirez
you will, from the wheels turning
Ian Watson
I dont know how a boeing works, but my instant intuition is that if the jets are parallel to the ground then it wont lift off (since force from the air goes to speed up the plane in the horizontal direction), if they are angled to the ground then the weight of the plane will be lower but will im sure the lifting force from the jets arent larger than m*g of the plane so it shouldnt lift off?
