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Originally Posted by DropTopChevy
No, with the conveyor keeping it in spot the plane will not recieve the amount of lift it would need at the speed in which it is capable of taking off at normally, if that makes sense.
Harrier Jet FTW.
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Thrust isn't the same as a car being propelled by traction. A car on a dyno stays still but a jet on a dyno wouldn't matter how fast the rollers move because the jet doesn't rely on the wheels to move it. The thrust would just move it forward. (I'm putting it in car terms
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The friction of the bearings in the wheels won't be enough to hold a jet back with the thousands of pounds of thrust it puts out. Then again if the jet were to reach takeoff speed the bearings in the wheels would just explode because of all the thousands of watts of energy it needs to displace.
So basically it won't take off because the wheels would just explode before any other variable could happen if the conveyor belt was keeping it still, but if it could move across the conveyor belt (like it should) then it "could" take off.