Will it take off? A scientific breakdown

Posted on April 6, 2008 by tiki god |
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7 Responses to “Will it take off? A scientific breakdown”

  1. Sticky on April 6th, 2008 12:16 pm

    Wow! A million miles an hour? I think that’d start to rip apart things.

  2. Namelis1 on April 6th, 2008 1:05 pm

    At a 100,000,0 (hahah) miles an hour the plane will be ripped to shreds by the wind. it will take off though. or be torn off.

  3. lostspyder on April 6th, 2008 3:16 pm

    The plane in the first one would take off even if it wasn’t an airplane…

    The real question is if the force being applied to the wheels is strong enough to pull the plane backwards - pretend the engine is off - if the plane is pulled back, it ought to be possible to make it such that the engine is not strong enough to overcome the backwards pull. At 1,000,000 mph, it probably is, thought the wheels would probably fall off first.

  4. fatkidsay on April 6th, 2008 5:14 pm

    Forces? What the f@#k does that mater? The ONLY thing that matters is airspeed. If the plane is traveling forward fast enough relative to the wind it will take off regardless of what the ground is doing. Sweet chocolate Christ let this thing die.

  5. The Lawnmower on April 6th, 2008 7:41 pm

    If the treadmill was moving fast enough that the friction in the wheels was enough to match the thrust from the engine moving forward, the heat would probably cause the plane to melt.

  6. bytehead on April 7th, 2008 9:08 am

    1,000,000 MPH would be enough to get a scramjet off the ground. Literally. Just start the engine.

    FWIW that’s Mach 1351.35 (sea level)

    OK. The plane would definitely be blown apart before anything to to that air speed

  7. motterbe on April 7th, 2008 11:53 pm

    I run on my treadmill at 1,000,000 mph but I do not put my toy airplanes on it that fast. No way.

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