Quote Originally Posted by speedminded
It's not the point of how long the runway is, it was already established the "treadmill" is the size of a runway...the POINT is whether a plane will remain stationary or not on said "treadmill". Does the rotation/action of a "treadmill" prevent the plane from propelling itself forward?


OMG, is a plane not a car deee deeee deeeeeee. The turbine is propelling the airplane by compressing air and fuel.







First if you want to get anal about this lets do it, There are different size of runways all around the world, also different altitudes; some are shorter than others and some other are at 220 sea level and others at 4700 over sea level; so if you have the shortest of the runways at city over 4700 over sea level and you have a fully loaded plane ready for an international flight the plane will not take off, It will reach the end of the stupid "treadmill" and crash.







There are a lot more variables that are not take into consideration when the stupid questions was asked... such as altitude, air temperature, passenger load, fuel load and distance of the runway, w/out all of these variable we can guess a fictional answer to and fictional question.