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Old 02-01-2008, 01:02 PM   #126
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Originally Posted by metal_geek View Post
What would happen in the opposite situation... a plane landing on a conveyor belt moving the same speed at the plan in the opposite direction? I would think the plane would land on the belt and land the same as normal minus the distance caused by the breaking friction. The only difference would be the "Speed" of the wheels would be double that of normal landing speed on contact..
That's an excellent counter example!

In this case, the motion is directly being affected by the wheels contact on the conveyor-belt. The actual stopping distance travelled relational to the belt itself would be the same as an actual runway (assuming the same friction coefficients), but the relative distance to a fixed point off the belt would be less since the belt would push the plane back.
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