This thread is as dopey as the 'straight piping the 07 RR', 'night vision', and every cop bashing thread. Jesus Christ, it is almost all Bernoulli Effect. The only thing that matters is the velocity of the air over the wing for any airplane that doesn't do the V/STOL trick. This is why tailwinds matter on takoff and landing.

An airplane with 200MPH ground speed and a 200MPH tailwind will generate no lift. This is why carriers turn into the wind to launch...Bernoulli, Bernoulli, Bernoulli

http://www.boscobel.k12.wi.us/~schnr...lli_effedt.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_principle

 

50 posts and counting...wow

 

 

Dont eat in front of me unless you're gonna share...[sm=bicker.gif]

 

all to true...you have to have a cross wind for Helo's and its a bitch when the carriers at flight quarters and you have to yield to the f*cking carrier AND get your bird on the deck cuz the idot is low on fuel and the coasties bird has his Malfunction light on and you have to get his a*s on the deck as well.....OH HOW I LOVED BEING AN OS IN THE NAVY....NOT!!!! so heres the real question..it takes 45 min from when your bird touches down till its secured in its bay and the flight deck is clear for bird 2...you have 15 min max to get helo #2 on the deck before he crashes into the ocean....what do you do? oh...BTW...is a Frigate so everythings broke...including your hoist to pull the bird into its bay

 

i say it takes off, on jan 30th themythbusters show is going to try this out.....we shall see

 

i thought this was put to rest a long time ago! Please [:@]

 

This poster couldnt be more true!! I tell you I'm sick of these new LT's F_ckin' up my damn jet every day. Just got off a 11 hour shift cuz of them [>:]

Guess the 11 was better than my 12 yesterday.

 

The plane's wheels could spin so fast they rip off and its dragging on torn apart rims, and it will still move foreward. Now say we have some setup as completly absurd as a giant conveyor belt for a runway, i think we can fit PERFECTLY balanced wheels to that. They will just keep going faster and faster, while the plane moves foreward. And I am a private pilot. (single engine ground)

 

I've been flying airplanes since i was 6 years old

I've been flight instructing for 10 years and have flown many different types of aircraft from pistons, to turbo-props, to turbofans

no, it won't get off the ground...