The Return of the most infamous HB thread of all time... :D

[2manymustangs]

Fpr what it's worth, a train wheel, any train wheel, sits on top of the railhead on a spot the size of a dime. Eight dimes is all the friction you get. No more, no less. Like I said, there are literally thousands upon thousands of pages of people battling out this question going back to the beginning of the 90's...no one side ever gives in, no one ever gets the other guys point. Personally, I could care less. This thread proves that the same things that made the thread on the first HB so virulent are still here. It was fun, but I'm out. You guys take it from here.....<B>

SO, a guy can apply 100lbs of force and overcome the friction created by the 58,000 lbs train car, doesn't it stand to reason that a jet engine with enough thrust to lift as much weight or more 60'000 feet into the air, it can overcome the "rolling resistence" of the weight of the aero-plane on the bearings/tires EVEN if it has to overcome the friction of an extra 800MPH of surface footage/bearing speed??? Once the plane has THRUSTED itself to a stop with minimal thrust it is CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF...