[Justin Montois]

I tried to look at this as simply as possible. When a person is running on a tread mill, the only reason you dont move forward or backward is because you are moving at a constant speed with the treadmill. If the treadmill sped up, you would fly backwards. If you sped up, you would run into the control panel. But if the treadmill could read how fast you were increasing your speed, as you did it, then you would remain still. Because the speeds would be constant. And you say you need wind for an airplane to take off, if you were running on a treadmill at 10 mph, then you increased to 100mph, if the control system kept up with you, you wouldnt feel wind hitting your face because in essance, your not moving. therefore I feel the plane will not take off.

Granted people are saying that the enignes are producing thrust against air and therefore you dont need the wheels, yet in this case, the engine is producing X amount of thrust and is in turn causing movement, which, when pushed against something that is not moving(a paved runway) it causes motion which can be read in MPH. So the engine thrust is causing motion(MPH) So if the runway can match the MPH of the plane, no matter what air the engines are pushing against, the planes "movement" is still in MPH and that can be matched by this runway so the runway would cancel the thrust by the engine and the plane would remain still. Granted the engines would be in full throttle and the runway would by whipping underneath but the plane would be motionless.

When all esle fails, read my orignal paragraph