My cousin used this example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORCk1BN7QY One. the plane isn't on a conveyor belt, you can clearly see the wheels are in contact with the ground. 2. This doesn't show the speed of their tarp in the reverse direction being the exact opposite of the wheels on the plane.
This whole situation is screwed up.
Follow along for a minute.
Screw the treadmill; screw the plane wheels; screw the wings; screw the engines; screw the plane.
If you screw it UP enough, the "UP" creates enough lift to make the plane fly.
So, screw it all up! The plane flies.
Problem solved.
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OK, if the airplane were on a treadmill or conveyor and the airplane brakes were on and the treadmill moved the airplane forward above stall speed, the airplane would lift off the treadmill (and promptly land back down due to no longer having the "thrust" of the treadmill). As in post #14, the airplane would fly - land - fly - land......
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If you look at the shape of a typical aerofoil:
You see that the top is curved more than the bottom. The air flows over the top and bottom of the wing. Since the TOP flow has further to go, it has to move faster to "keep up". Bernoulli's law says that if the flow is faster, it's pressure must be lower.
To imagine this, think of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of people walking past an aerofoil shape (wing) standing on end. The people on the "top" side of the "wing" have further to walk, so they must speed up in order to keep up with the people on the "bottom" side of the "wing". Since they walk faster, they temporarily move further apart from each other (their density decreases).
Going back to airflow, decreased density means lower pressure. Therefore, there is a LOW PRESSURE area at the top of the wing. The wings are not pushed up by the airflow, they are SUCKED UP by the low pressure above the wing!
Ever take an air hose and blow the air straight up and suspend a ping-pong ball on the airstream? This works because the air flowing over the curve of the ball has to speed up as it flows around the ball, creating a low pressure area that pulls on the ball.
If the ball, say, tries to fall off to the left, the right side is exposed to more airflow, the pressure on the right side gets lower and the ball is "sucked" back into the center. The ball does "dance around" in the stream, but that's just due to turbulence in the airflow. But the ball is always kept inside the "column" of moving air due to Bernoulli's principle.
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There would no no airstream to provide lift, whatever speed the wheels are moving forward, the treadmill is running backward at the exact speed. The plane would never move, and there would be no airflow in the question I pondered. How does it fly when it essentially never moves from one spot? I'm aware of how lift works, flew a plane as a student pilot, with a student pilot certificate. I'm thinking a couple people including you missed the part that the treadmill is always running the opposite direction as the plane's wheels.
Last edited by 1 Patriot-of-many; 08-27-2019 at 09:21 AM.
[QUOTE=1 Patriot-of-many;486954]There would no no airstream to provide lift, whatever speed the wheels are moving forward, the treadmill is running backward at the exact speed. The plane would never move, and there would be no airflow in the question I pondered. How does it fly when it essentially never moves from one spot? I'm aware of how lift works, flew a plane as a student pilot, with a student pilot certificate. I'm thinking a couple people including you missed the part that the treadmill is always running the opposite direction as the plane's wheels.[/QU
It really doesn't matter about the treadmill and the wheels. As I pointed out the wheels are free wheeling, like bearings in a machine. They are not mechanically linked to the frame to impart any forward motion. Even sitting on a solid surface, those wheels will not move until thrust is applied. Then all the wheels do is act like bearings between the plane and the runway.
The same with the conveyor belt, it doesn't matter how fast the conveyor turns in the opposite direction, the wheels are still free wheeling bearings that have nothing to do with imparting movement to the plane. Thrust from the engines propels the plane forward completely independent of what the conveyor does.
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[QUOTE=1 Patriot-of-many;486954]There would no no airstream to provide lift, whatever speed the wheels are moving forward, the treadmill is running backward at the exact speed. The plane would never move, and there would be no airflow in the question I pondered. How does it fly when it essentially never moves from one spot? I'm aware of how lift works, flew a plane as a student pilot, with a student pilot certificate. I'm thinking a couple people including you missed the part that the treadmill is always running the opposite direction as the plane's wheels.[/QU
It really doesn't matter about the treadmill and the wheels. As I pointed out the wheels are free wheeling, like bearings in a machine. They are not mechanically linked to the frame to impart any forward motion. Even sitting on a solid surface, those wheels will not move until thrust is applied. Then all the wheels do is act like bearings between the plane and the runway.
The same with the conveyor belt, it doesn't matter how fast the conveyor turns in the opposite direction, the wheels are still free wheeling bearings that have nothing to do with imparting movement to the plane. Thrust from the engines propels the plane forward completely independent of what the conveyor does.
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[QUOTE=N/A;486956] So if that's the case, why don't we use treadmills instead of catapults or runways to take off? I have yet to see an actual treadmill being used with a plane to prove this theory that it would take off. The wheels are still connected to the ground. Airflow over the and under the wing is what matters. Still not comprehending, Half of people agree it won't fly, another section says it will fly. where does the extra energy come from. As you increase thrust in a plane the wheels move faster, but the treadmill moves in the opposite direction just as fast. The plane never moves relative the ground position.
Last edited by 1 Patriot-of-many; 08-27-2019 at 10:50 AM.
We're not talking about the plane flying; basically the question is how would a treadmill interact with the wheels.
Take this example. Get a small Timken bearing about the size of a quarter with a 3/16 hole in the center. Put a 6 inch long dowel thru the hole, so you have a "wheel" on an "axle", so to speak. Now walk over to your bench grinder and turn it on. Hold the bearing up to the grinding wheel such that the outer race of the bearing runs on edge of the grinding wheel. The outer race will turn, the inner race will remain stationary. Now move the bearing up and down against the grinding wheel. No matter what you do, the outer race continues to turn while the inner race remains stationary even tho it changes location on the wheel.
Why? Because the ball bearings between the races isolates the grinding wheel from the inner race.
The same with the plane. The conveyor belt is the grinding wheel, the landing gear wheels are the bearings with the tires being the outer race. The bearings in the hub mounted to the gear be axle are the bearings and inner race. Thus, the plane is isolated from the conveyor belt much like the small bearing on a stick isolates the stick from the grinding. No matter how fast the grinding wheel turns, you can still push on the stick and move the bearing up or down against the grinding wheel.
The same is true of the plane. No matter how fast the conveyor belt or wheels turn, the inner race of the wheels isolates the plane from the conveyor and you are free to apply force(thrust) to it and move it "up or down" the conveyor belt.
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Yes, forward thrust of the engines is countered by the treadmill running against forward motion. The plane will never fly because no airflow is generated over the wings.
Like a person running on a treadmill, you never move forward because the treadmill speed, which in this case you control, is moving in the opposite direction keeping you stationary.
Since the 747 treadmill is directly proportional to wheel speed, the split second the aircraft starts moving forward, the wheels turn causing the treadmill to match that speed in an equal and opposite direction. Like a runner on a treadmill, except in this illustration the treadmill is computer controlled to match tire speed, the faster the wheels turn, the faster the treadmill matches that keeping the aircraft at it's starting point. Assuming a treadmill that can only move in one direction, locking the brakes has no affect as the aircraft won't move, and the neither does the treadmill.
Given these limitations, a lot of fuel will be used going nowhere.
Put some roller skates on, get on a treadmill and see what happens.
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Are the engines driving it? If so it will just drive right off of the treadmill (and then take off). The thrust doesn't come from the wheels driving it. If not it would need to chained down so it didn't fall off forward or backward off the treadmill (like a car on a dyno). In that case, no lift, no takeoff.
Does not matter.
If the airplane has takeoff thrust, and it's sitting on a treadmill that matches the wheel speed so that they don't turn, all you're doing is removing the minuscule drag of the wheel bearings and the airplane takes off even easier.
Remember, the wheels have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with how the airplane flies. It's all airflow over the wings, caused by the engine thrust pushing the airplane forward into the air.
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My dad was a master tool & die maker and in his younger foolish days, he put a ball bearing in his left index finger and, using a 350 psig air hose, revved it up somewhere past warp factor 9.
Well, the bearing seized and all that stored energy went into his finger and created the coolest looking spiral fracture ever!
Worse yet, the bearing got hot before it seized and my dad was torn between ripping the hot bearing off his mangled finger or letting it burn.
He ripped off the bearing and got dizzy from the pain, but he didn't pass out (so he told me).
He never went to the doctor, so when his finger healed, it was slightly twisted and slightly crooked.
You had to see it to believe it... one fingernail about 15 degrees off parallel with the others!
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