Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off?

"One of the posters raised the issue of what would happen when the
aircraft
returned for landing."

If the belt were moving backwards at the speed of the aircraft when it
touched down, it would be similar to landing with that much tailwind,
basically, your ground speed would double you airspeed at touch down.
Jester

"jesse" wrote in message
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"One of the posters raised the issue of what would happen when the
aircraft
returned for landing."

If the belt were moving backwards at the speed of the aircraft when it
touched down, it would be similar to landing with that much tailwind,
basically, your ground speed would double you airspeed at touch down.

All that would happen is that the wheels would have to turn faster to
accomdate the treadmill. Just as they do at takeoff. There's not really
any difference between the two scenarios.