Quote Originally Posted by gn7 View Post
You are too funny. First it was converted thrust to the wheels in one post, now its AIR verses Surface. Your screwing yourself with you own posts. Its too funny. You know what you want to say, because you see it in you head, but you can make sense of it in words.

Like I said, its a hypothetical brain teaser that doesn't allow the plane to move forward on the hypothetical tread mill. None of which has anything to do with REAL physics.
It has everything to do with physics. Again, Newton's third law. Now , that said, I said in the beginning that the wheels transmit thrust through the landing gear to the wheelsets. You said no that's not it, it's the engines. So I came back and said it was the engines pulling air through them, they do not interact with the road in the same ways that a car does. Now I am contradicting myself. Not really. You keep thinking this has to do with the engines, I keep saying the engines are nothing without the wheels....LOL...you see? It's an endless pointless argument, but great fun to argue, because under the right circumstances, both sides are right. I owe you a beer...and you owe me one right back......