Exactly. and without the wheels...or the pontoons in this case, the plane wouldn't move or it would move very slowly, grinding along and it wouldn't take off. The wheels (pontoons) help the plane overcome the physical drag of the ground or water. Without pontoons that thing would be a backwards running power boat.lmao then how do you explain this?
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the only thing the wheels/floats are doing is keeping the plane/props/jets from hitting the ground/water and creating more friction. ffs
Exactly. and without the wheels...or the pontoons in this case, the plane wouldn't move or it would move very slowly, grinding along and it wouldn't take off. The wheels (pontoons) help the plane overcome the physical drag of the ground or water. Without pontoons that thing would be a backwards running power boat.
An aircraft carrier illustrates this. If the engines themselves could make the planes take off, they wouldn't need a catapult on an aircraft carrier, they wouldn't need to turn into the wind to maximize lift, they wouldn't use ski jumps to boost the plane a little higher to give the engines a chance to help the plane build velocity to create lift.
The point being the engines power is irrelevant if the plane never reaches the proper speed along the ground and it will never reach the proper speed if the "ground" is moving just as fast in the opposite direction
2nd best poster ITT behind juggsan air plane has a prop to move air over the wings and generate lift.
Exactly. and without the whe point being the engines power is irrelevant if the plane never reaches the proper speed along the ground and it will never reach the proper speed if the "ground" is moving just as fast in the opposite direction
write awayyou can literally write an equation that proves it will fly and not one that proves it won't
We just need more power
then we can take off from a stand still