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Originally Posted by iCurtis
Well I don't want to muddy this debate with my lack of appropriate formulas, but I think the plane would still take off in a wind tunnel.
A plane is not a big brick wall, it is aerodynamic to reduce wind friction. Therefore in a wind tunnel it would still take off if the wind was blowing at the same speed as the plane was moving, because the wind is slipping around the plane, not pressing against it.
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It wouldn't take off and go FORWARD, sorry for the muddy-ness
EDIT: foreward relative to the ground, not the surrounding air, Yet more muddyness, sorry.
