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drkohler said: Amen to that - at least somebody else got it right.

Thing is that this is not about a theoretical plane over a theoretical threadmill - it's about a real plane over a real threadmill. Othewise, I could also say that, in a perfect system, rolling friction doesn't increase with speed. And this perfect system where the plane does take off (i.e., your "correctly performed experiment") simply put doesn't exist.



Reality has a Nintendo bias.