ELI5, If a large passenger jet was trying to take off on a free spinning treadmill, would it take off?
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The treadmill is irrelevant. The aircraft engines and wings interact with the air, not the ground. If a treadmill was running fast in the opposite direction, the wheels would simply spin faster as the aircraft takes off. Imagine that the wheels were skis and the treadmill surface was ice. The aircraft could still take off.
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