Originally Posted by
chuck
aight aight...i get what you guys were saying now...i was thinking the planes ground speed was constantly the same as the treadmill, like running on a treadmill, you don't actually go anywhere....but yeah, i see how the force of the thrust can move it forward with the treadmill still going the opposite way with free moving wheels
...i guess i just had a misunderstanding of the "while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction at the same speed as the plane"
but i still have questions...even though they weren't asked for...
so if the plane and the treadmill are always at the same speed then how does the plane move?? say the plane pulls foward at 5mph, the treadmill would go backward at 5mph, i'm assuming the wheels would be spinning at 10mph but the plane would be chilling there??
i get the concept that the plane can move foward but i don't get how it could on a treadmill going the same speed but backward...i think i'm getting mixed up in the plane speed, wheel speed and treadmill speed...grrr
