Airplane on a Conveyor conundrum

[darkdezigns]

are you post whoring again?

no

[yoshie]

im not coming with stein(unfortunately),but i do intend to visit next year(early on maybe to get some snow in),and camp when its cold enought to freeze your spuds off,mr mudsurfer is keen to attend,im sure we can convince mr apache,and possibly a few others

Get dates asap mate so we can all sort time off. I will be fine can swap most any shift, but some will need a bit of notice. Would be great to meet you all

[KERRSURF]

im not coming with stein(unfortunately),but i do intend to visit next year(early on maybe to get some snow in),and camp when its cold enought to freeze your spuds off,mr mudsurfer is keen to attend,im sure we can convince mr apache,and possibly a few others

I'll take you on a grand tour of snowy bits.

[yoshie]

Just twigged to the next year bit 2009 plenty of time for date setting then

[animal]

god this thread has gone mad hahahaha

[animal]

and this is my 500th post
about ###### time

[gwh200]

Just twigged to the next year bit 2009 plenty of time for date setting then

weel i like to plan things a bit in advance !!

seems that the southern surfers need to get out a bit more

gonna work on nero as well

[Slugsie]

OK, calm down everyone.

Insults have started to be traded, and offences taken. I did not in any way intend my original post to degenerate into this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure that any 'off-hand' comments anyone has posted are meant in a light-hearted joking manner, but the nature of the forum means that it's easy to take a comment the wrong way. I started this thread to stimulate healthy intellectual debate, not to start a slanging match.

May I respectfully request that if anyone wishes to continue this discussion they keep their posts to strictly dealing with the physics of aircraft flight (or non flight depending on your - incorrect - point of view). If that turns out to not be possible, then I will close the thread.

Oh, and to answer a question someone asked a couple of pages back, I don't know of a definitive answer. The nearest anyone has come to trying to replicate the scenario as far as I can tell is on the TV show Mythbusters (the scientific value of their experiments will be left to another discussion please), the episode of which is due to be shown tonight in the USA.

Thank you all for your co-operation.

[Apache]

im sure we can convince mr apache

Convince me of what? That it will take off? That incident light can be measured in watts? Whats? What?

[KERRSURF]

god this thread has gone mad hahahaha

I think the boredom has reverted us back to truck based banter

[gwh200]

Convince me of what? That it will take off? That incident light can be measured in watts? Whats? What?

dude never mind plane and things,considering your penchant for some more "extensive" travelling,how about a scottish excursion next year,me and mudthurfer are definite !!

[TonyN]

tony, the conveyor wouldnt hold the plane back, it would just make the wheels turn faster, just think about that.

It's theoretical conveyer, it dosn't have to work!

If the motors arn't running, the plane will go backward on the conveyor yes? start what ever means of propulsion you want, and stop the plane going backwards. now increase engine thrust, as long as the conveyor can outpace any thrust of the motors, with the help of friction and gravity it won't go anywhere.

Its not in space where it would work.

I'm going down the pub now, run out of remotely sensible ways to drag it out any longer.

[KERRSURF]

up to 12 now.


You are all welcome. hope plenty show up.

[KERRSURF]

It's theoretical conveyer, it dosn't have to work!

If the motors arn't running, the plane will go backward on the conveyor yes? start what ever means of propulsion you want, and stop the plane going backwards. now increase engine thrust, as long as the conveyor can outpace any thrust of the motors, with the help of friction and gravity it won't go anywhere.

Its not in space where it would work.

I'm going down the pub now, run out of remotely sensible ways to drag it out any longer.

are you sure your not already in the pub?

[gwh200]

up to 12 now.


You are all welcome. hope plenty show up.

well we have about ayear to try and drum some support up !!