Post by Let's Go Aerospace Magazine

✈️ LAST WEEK'S RIDDLE!!! the answer is in! ✈️ Here's the setup again A plane sits on a giant conveyor belt that moves backward exactly as fast as its wheels spin forward. The pilot throttles up to full power. Does the plane take off? It does!!!!! The trick is the part almost everyone misses, a plane's wheels just spin freely they don't drive it forward. The engines push against the air, not the ground. So the belt can spin all it wants, the plane still powers forward, hits takeoff speed, and lifts right off. 🎥 Watch it happen below!!! So… did you get it right? And more importantly..... did the young engineer in your life? Tell us in the comments who called it. 👇 #LetsGoAerospace #STEMeducation #AerospaceEngineering #RaisingEngineers #Aviation

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