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  1. 12-10-2007, 09:41 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by speedminded
    This just in...

    The episode, which airs in December, finds Savage and Hyneman tackling a question baffling everyone from bloggers to pilots: If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and that conveyor belt is matching the speed in reverse, can the plane take off?

    ``We put the plane on a quarter-mile conveyor belt and tested it out,'' says Savage about the experiment using a pilot and his Ultralight plane. ``I won't tell you what the outcome was, but the pilot and his entire flight club got it wrong.''
    I'm going to bet that they all thought that it "wouldn't" take off. Ahahahha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruiner
    I'm going to bet that they all thought that it "wouldn't" take off. Ahahahha

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