Airplane on Conveyor Belt!

Season 6, Episode 3, Aired

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  • Flying and Flies

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    By CRaivios, Jul 27, 2008
    My husband was an aircraft mechanic, someone who loaded airplanes and a flight engineer (the one sitting sideways in the back of the cockpit in old movies) in the Air Force. I come to him for any question that has to do with aeronautics. He has an incredible memory for history and airplane accidents.

    I made him come watch the show with me. He was unamused. Airplanes take off due to AIR speed not speed on land. He was incredibly unimpressed by the planes being able to take off.

    As for the shaving cream in the car and nuking the cockroaches? That was just plain silly.moreless

  • I can't believe that anybody is stupid enough for this to even be a myth!

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    By chazdude, Apr 17, 2008
    This totally to blows my mind. They say during the show, that "this is one of the most talked about questions on the Internet". How can ANYBODY be so stupid to even ask the question about an airplane being able to take off on a conveyor belt. Any idiot should realize the fact that an airplane needs WIND to lift off, not the wheels turning around on the belt. You would have to have wind thats up to the the takeoff speed. By putting the plane on a belt just means the wheels will have to spin twice as fast, until the forward motion of the plane reaches take-off speed. Why was this even a question? Are there really people out there that are that stupid?moreless

  • The Airplane on Conveyor Belt episode, in my opinion, was not tested properly.

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    By locopato, Feb 03, 2008
    In this episode I feel that in reality this episode of the "Airplane on Conveyor Belt" was really never tested properly. In the final test they were only matching the lift-off speed of the plane at 25 miles per hour. What they did not do was to have the plane match the "conveyor belt" speed. That means that the plane was actually traveling faster in a forward direction than the conveyor belt was counteracting it. With that in mind that means that at that point there was forward motion of the plane, (as shown by the video showing the plane overtaking the cones on the ground), in relation to the ground which would then allow the plane to acquire lift. If in fact the object was to match the example of the car on the conveyor belt scenario. The test should be accomplished by insuring that the conveyor belt traveling at least 35 miles per hour in one direction and the plane to traveling at a speed to match making sure that there is no forward motion. At that point, (as the pilot stated), there would be no airflow across the wings and the plane would then remain on the ground. The controversy is caused because they are trying to match the lift off speed of the plane and not the actual speed of the plane. So in order to have an accurate test the conveyor belt must match the "actual speed" of the plane rather than the "lift-off" speed.moreless
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