Until I read KenWittlief's post (one above mine) I was pretty sure about this reasoning:
The plane will not take off.
In order for a plane to lift off the ground, the air above the wings needs to be of lower pressure, which happens when it is moving faster, than the air beneath the wings. (The reason that the wings are curved.) In order for the air above to be moving faster than the air underneath, the plane needs to be moving relative to the air. Due to the conveyer belt, the plane DOES NOT MOVE in relation to the air. Thus it does not take off.
But now I'm confused as to whether to plane actually moves... And intuition says the plane will take off...
~Stephanie
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
Oh, and does anyone foresee an episode of mythbusters coming on about this????
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