Can you answer this old puzzle?:
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Yes. Because Myth Busters says so.
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Yea. The wheels don’t matter. The thrust will move the plane forward independent regardless.
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Yes… but only if the tires would not explode when doubling the take-off speed, relative to the backward moving ‘ground’.
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The only thing that matters is the relative velocity of air over the wings and into the engines. How fast the wheels spin is completely irrelevant.
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