Airplane + Conveyor Belt
Airplane + Conveyor Belt
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- ribit0
Yes, you are missing the fact that the extra drag on the wheels (the wheels will spin faster in this scenario) is the only effect that a moving runway will have on this plane.
All that energy used to move the conveyer is,well, moving the conveyer belt, but has little effect on a high powered vehicle with freewheeling wheels.
The forward motion of the plane is only affected by engine thrust, air resistance (big), the initial static wheel spin and tyre deformation resistance (small), and dynamic wheel spin resistance (very small)