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Originally Posted by SarichFan
What am I Dr. Emmit Brown? Think of someone running on a treadmill... Are they constantly moving forward?
The plane moved forward, of course it's going to take off.. It's getting wind under the wings.
I'm no scientist but that's kind of what I expected, I expected The Plane's propeller to pull it along but eventually the speed of the plane would match the speed of the treadmill, and that's where things would get interesting..
All the treadmill did was slow down the plane slightly.
It was 1.21 Gigawatts of Dissapointment...
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Aside from the awesome reference to Dr. Brown, what you described is exactly the point. As the "myth" is described, the plane would move forward and would take off. There is nothing in the description that would ever cause it to remain stationary. Which is why I'm wondering what would make you think it would stay in one spot.