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Actually, once you realize what's going on, it's an incredibly awkward way of describing it, since there wouldn't actually be any wheel rotation at all, and that's what tricks us into thinking about it as if it were a car. It would be much more correct to say that the conveyor belt is moving at the same speed as the airplane.


Exactly. Whether intentional or not, this question is very poorly worded. There is more debate about what the question is actually asking than there is about whether or not the plane could fly.
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Brad B.