Most pilots bounce a few timesi hadn't thought about it before but i think ur right
if a plane landed on a treadmill spinning as fast as the wheels are going it would just stop moving as the treadmill gets going
probably terrifying for the passengers who would see the wheels spinning but nothing moving in the background
i hadn't thought about it before but i think ur right
if a plane landed on a treadmill spinning as fast as the wheels are going it would just stop moving as the treadmill gets going
probably terrifying for the passengers who would see the wheels spinning but nothing moving in the background
The treadmill doesn't stop the plane from moving forward because the plane moves forward by grabbing the AIR with its propeller and not by grabbing the ground with its wheels.
The analog to a car on a treadmill is a plane in a wind tunnel. The propeller tries to grab the air and throw it backwards but the air is already moving that way so no forward movement occurs. If the wind speed in the wind tunnel gets high enough the plane could still "take off" but it would only rise in place or move backwards when it rose.
How does a plane move forward AFTER takeoff? The same way it moves on the ground. Therefore the ground or a treadmill has no impact on a plane's ability to move.