wrote:
Rip wrote:
Yes, the airplane will take off. The thrust of the engine is against the
AIR. NOT the treadmill.

The thrust of the engine is not against the air. It generates
thrust as a Newtonian reaction to the prop moving air back, not
"pushing on other air."

Oh, I see. Basically, you try to say that moving air back is not pushing
it back?


Leonard