Airplane + Conveyor Belt
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Ribit, where you one of those bright kids in school who often got bad grades simply because you didn't read the question?
The conveyor belt serves to nullify any thrust or effect on/from the plane, therefore, the plane is 'stationary'.
In this scenario, the only way to achieve lift would be: a) if the motion of the conveyor belt itself created some freak bernoulli effect b) the volume of space used to conduct the experiment was restricted and designed such that the thrust from the jets created a pressure differential between the front of the experiment containing the jet and the back, pulling air across the wing surface forcing it to act as designed (imagine the jet sitting inside a tube barely large enough to fit the wings and fins - this, of course, would mean that the jet would hit an immediate vertical limitation - the top of the tube!). Outside, in the real world, the air would be drawn from the entire volume of air in front of the jet, and no pressure differential created - or, at least one too massively weak to do anything.