I thought someone should put this into the Fiso Classics forum before it gets lost ...

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I am a new member and I swear, on pain of ITFC never being promoted again, I am not trying to reopen this debate.

Can I add when I first heard this question posed I was firmly in the no camp.

I saw this exact question on tv, on mythbusters, the other day. They proved first with a model plane and with a real one, single prop 2 man job, that the plane would take off!

For all the pilots out there the pilot of the real plane had 20 years flying and he thought it wouldn't fly and was amazed when it did.

The reasons given for it being able to fly were the ones given by the FISOers, congrats for being brainy enough to work it out without seeing it, I know I wouldn't have.

Can I just add awesome thread, much amusement had reading it all. I would recommend it to anyone with a few spare hours, a gap in Olympic coverage and a hated of daytime tv.

Prove it there must be a link surely

It was on tv, I can't find a link to a tv show! It was on the discovery channel or something like that a few weeks ago but I don't know if the show was a repeat or not.

Another link to try and convince the flat earthers among you!

http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/p ... veyor+Belt

Not my idea of a conveyor belt but hey ho

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0ul_5DtMLhc

For all who are still grabbing at straws that "it wont", here is the link.


http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/top-ten/pocb/pocb.html

Still not having it.
In that clip the plane is moving forward relative to the ground so it will obviously take off.
If you read the question in the first post it suggests that no matter how fast it tries to go and how fast the wheels spin the conveyor belt will go equally as fast the other way so it wont move and wont take off you stupid effers

I love it that there are still people who cant grasp the so so simple concept that an aeroplane isnt a car!!!

Just know that it WILL take off and dont spend any more time worrying about it

Are you jezsting me

Explain the so so simple concept and I'll tell you why you are wrong and then my team will turn your lot over on Monday to hammer the point home

Just read the thread, im not getting into this again. All will be made clear in the attached classic.

Fair play, but for a minute there I thought I had a biter