Quote Originally Posted by MR.org
heres my problem with the mythbusters stuff....and i dont care what its going to do, to me its one of those what came first? the chicken or the egg questions...i just dont give a ****, but....

shouldnt the small scale match the large scale? obviously the answers yes...so then why have the small scale on an actual conveyor where the weight of the model plane doesnt press the conveyor belt itself against the underlying supports and then have a large scale where essentially the conveyor is laying flat on the underlying support (the ground) and being pulled that way....just seems to me the plane in the large scale is merely taking off on a run way while someone pulls a bed sheet under it....not that intelligent if you ask me....that doesnt create a conveyor of any type....to match them they should pull the same sheet under the small scale plane as well


i can see where a plan can take off once it overcomes the initial friction of being on a conveyor, but im still confused as to how a plane, sitting stationary if the plane is matching the speed of the belt is going to create lift, and thus take off
There is no initial friction that you yourself pushing that airplane with your own hands couldn't overcome.

How is the fabric being pulled any different than the belt on a conveyor? It's still moving parallel to the ground just as the belt would.