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Old December 9th 07, 04:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting,rec.skydiving
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe
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Default Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:12:27 -0400, " Vacant lot
wrote:

I don't understand the premise of the conveyor belt thing. If you are
talking about thrusting an aircraft forward, like a catapult, you already
know the answer, and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you already
know
the answer. What are they trying to prove?


If it were so cut and dried, why does it generate threads of several
hundred messages here? G


Because the answer depends on a lot of assumptions that are not stated as
part of the original question.

:-p

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