EF Intelligence vs. another chat board I post on

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This (trick) question was posted in the "general" section of another forum that I frequent. It has turned into a very long thread. Lets see how everyone here stacks up against the moronic posts that littered the other forum.

"Let's say you have a single engine airplane sitting on a runway that is 3000 feet long, and through some great engineering the runway is actually a giant treadmill. It's engineered so that when the plane starts to move forward the runway moves in the opposite direction at exactly the same speed., i.e. as the airplane's wheels pick up speed the runway matches it.
Will the plane get airborne?"

 

[PICK3]

no

This invalidates Bernoulli's equation as an explanation for the aerodynamic lift.

 

[borris]

way 2 :blazed: right now bro


*waits for Samuff*

 

[borris]

Doesn't alot of air have to be passing between the wings to take off flight? Wouldn't having a plane on a tredmill cancel that out since it is just rolling on still air?

 

[Big Rick Rock]

I just went to my neighbor's house and tested this. The answer is NO.

 

[MichaelScott]

i can see why this was never brought up b4, whay if you are driving the speed of light and you turn on your headlights will they shine

 

[stilleto]

no.
the wheels would be spinning like mad, but spinning wheels do not an airborne plane make.

 

[MichaelScott]

nice

 

[-SD-]

way 2 :blazed: right now bro


*waits for Samuff*

Doesn't alot of air have to be passing between the wings to take off flight? Wouldn't having a plane on a tredmill cancel that out since it is just rolling on still air?

If this guy can get the answer right then Ive heard enough.
EF=astronomically more intelligent than that other board.

 

[KillahBee]

lolloooo