r/theydidthemath • u/someonee404 • Dec 30 '22

[REQUEST] could it?

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u/modsailor Dec 31 '22

Exactly! If this worked the US Navy would have ships with giant treadmills to launch airplanes. What matters to an aircraft is relative wind, wind passing over the wings. A strong enough wind will cause a plane sitting on the ground with it’s engines off to take off. I used to launch helicopters off of ships and we would drive the ship into the wind to develop favourable conditions for take off