Author Topic: Airplane on a Conveyor Belt... (Read 26043 times)

Curval · « **Reply #60 on:** January 31, 2008, 07:45:13 AM »

I cared so much about this issue...that I actually forgot to watch it.

It took off.

Congrats...you are teh winnnar.

Funny, I've now become the poster child for the "it won't take off" side of this argument and yet as I have previously stated I failed physics and don't fly planes (except as a passenger). I posted here just to bunch up people's panties.

I hope this major intardnet victory makes you feel really great about yourselves.

AKIron · « **Reply #61 on:** January 31, 2008, 11:10:17 AM »

Here's a better one. Who's faster, Superman or The Flash?

Maverick · « **Reply #62 on:** January 31, 2008, 11:51:02 AM »

Curv,

Don't feel bad, the pilot that Mythbusters hired to do the stunt also figured the plane would "sit there like a brick" and not fly. Both the small scale and full scale results were the same, myth soundly busted.

Chalenge · « **Reply #63 on:** January 31, 2008, 12:59:46 PM »

Whoever posted this problem to the MB group must have missed a few of the criteria I remember reading. Not that it would make any difference but I was disappointed to see the runway moving at takeoff speed only. I wanted to see smoking bearings and ludicrous speed!

Treize69 · « **Reply #64 on:** January 31, 2008, 01:01:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Chalenge
...smoking bearings and ludicrous speed!

Ludicrous speed, GO!

MajIssue · « **Reply #65 on:** January 31, 2008, 02:53:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
I've put together a quick list of excuses you can call on tonight or tomorrow after the episode for why it took off:

"They did it wrong, they-":

1. "Weren't supposed to give it full throttle!"
2. "Should have tied it down to prevent it from moving!"
3. "Didn't make the conveyor belt move infinitely fast!"
4. "Aren't real scientists, they didn't understand the problem!"

Hope one or more of these fit your outrage.

If the plane doesn't take off for some reason (like, they tie it down or don't give it the right throttle or something) then I'll be sad, but I'll face my fate here like a man. Can you commit to the same?

I saw it last night and it was TOTAL BUNK. The Piper Cub they used was moving FORWARD. It was NOT stationary. The Mythbusters got it totally WRONG!! Anybody with any knowledge of how an airplane flies was throwing things at the television when they saw this episode.

FACT: An aircraft w/ zero Indicacated Air Speed will NOT fly.

Mythbusters: BUSTED for bad science

Treize69 · « **Reply #66 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:02:15 PM »

{{Sung to the famouS "da da da daaaaaa" from Beethovens 5th}}

NOBODY CARES.... NOBODY CAAAARES.......

AKIron · « **Reply #67 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:04:53 PM »

I didn't watch it. I'm curious though, did the plane take off before it reached the end of the "belt".

Treize69 · « **Reply #68 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:06:18 PM »

IT TOOK OFF IN EXACTLY THE SAME DISTANCE IT DID WITHOUT THE BELT.

EDIT- Whoops, caps.

AKIron · « **Reply #69 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:08:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Treize69
IT TOOK OFF IN EXACTLY THE SAME DISTANCE IT DID WITHOUT THE BELT.

EDIT- Whoops, caps.

I bet that's not true but it wasn't what I was asking.

It is highly unlikely a plane will ever take off in "exactly" the same distance twice in it's life.

Donzo · « **Reply #70 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:12:12 PM »

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Originally posted by MajIssue
I saw it last night and it was TOTAL BUNK. The Piper Cub they used was moving FORWARD. It was NOT stationary. The Mythbusters got it totally WRONG!! Anybody with any knowledge of how an airplane flies was throwing things at the television when they saw this episode.

FACT: An aircraft w/ zero Indicacated Air Speed will NOT fly.

Mythbusters: BUSTED for bad science

First of all, it was not a Piper Cub.

Secondly, the whole point was the the aircraft WOULD move forward, regardless of what the ground underneath it was doing.

Treize69 · « **Reply #71 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:12:32 PM »

I know what you're asking, and the belt had no effect at all. Just like it didn't with the R/C plane, and just like anyone with brain in their heads would know it wouldn't.

God, can't we let this pointless argument die??? Its a stupid idea, it was a waste of an episode, and its a rediculous thing to keep going over ad nauseum. Either you get it or you don't, and it absolutely rediculous how many people do not, and will not, EVER understand it.

The ignorance and stubbornness of people never ceases to disturb me.

Russian · « **Reply #72 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:15:38 PM »

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRcg3ji_Pc

here's video in question .....

AKIron · « **Reply #73 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:16:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Treize69
I know what you're asking, and the belt had no effect at all. Just like it didn't with the R/C plane, and just like anyone with brain in their heads would know it wouldn't.

God, can't we let this pointless argument die??? Its a stupid idea, it was a waste of an episode, and its a rediculous thing to keep going over ad nauseum. Either you get it or you don't, and it absolutely rediculous how many people do not, and will not, EVER understand it.

The ignorance and stubbornness of people never ceases to disturb me.

I didn't ask if the belt had an effect. I never doubted the plane would take off. The "belt" had a limited length. I am simply curious if the plane took off before they ran out of belt. Dosen't sound like a hard question for someone who watched it. Did you watch it?

Treize69 · « **Reply #74 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:17:28 PM »

Yes, and I've now said THREE times that it got off well before the end.

I am typing in English right? I get distracted sometimes.