Yes. the jet engines would eventually be pulling enough air to the wings for liftoff.
@cra903 The engines alone would not generate enough wind flow over the wings to create lift.
@Kevin Hines
You are probably correct. i need to take physics again. However, it seems to me that if this airplane was hanging from a giant pendulum and it had its engines full thrust - if you cut the plane free it would fly? or maybe it would drop a few thousand feet first? i dont know. Cant wait to hear the official explanation.
Say a bumblebee normally flies at a speed of 5 miles per hour. It so happens there is one setting on the ledge below the back window of a car driving West at 60 miles per hour. It takes off and flies to the dashboard ledge below the front window of that fully closed-up car. Did it really fly 65 miles per hour in doing so?
@cra903 The engines alone would not generate enough wind flow over the wings to create lift.
Right, but the engine thrust will move the plane forward with respect to the ground under the conveyor and the air, and after it picks up speed there will be lift. The conveyor will have negligible effect on the net thrust. The wheels may turn freely and they do not transfer any significant force to the plane, compared to the engine thrust.
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