Quote Originally Posted by Fast Shadow
There is nothing for it to overcome, which is what you don't understand. The wheels don't drive the plane, the engines do. The fact you're still arguing about this shows you never took a physics class in your life.

Go look at a moving walkway at an airport. Now imagine there is a rope tied to a pole at one end of the walkway. Now imagine you're standing on a skateboard, holding onto the rope, at the other end of the walkway. You can use the rope to pull yourself from one end of the walkway to the the other using the same amount of effort regardless if the walkway is turned on or off.

Get it?
This analogy is exactly correct because the speed of the moving sidewalk is constant. Is the speed of the runway constant in the problem, or does it change to match the speed of the wheels?