/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I think we all remember the massive amounts of speculation that went on surrounding this image and I think that we all also remember that this debate was "settled in the lab" by mythbusters, who flew a piper cub off of a treadmill.
For people who are familiar with how airplanes actually work (as opposed to the average cable TV viewing couch potato), you probably realize that the way a STOL piston prop like a cub attains flight is very, very different from a 767 heavy jetliner. People familiar with small prop planes, especially people who have seen stuff like "long props and big rocks" will recognize that under the right wind conditions, a cub can take off and land pretty much like a chopper. The rest of you all know that an airplane attains lift by the suction created when air moves over the wings and that the cub's prop's slipstream moves a massive amount of air over the cub's wings at very high speed, something that a jet aircraft does not do.
i don't want to be any more longwinded and boring than i've already been, but the tl;dr version of this is that i don't think mythbuster's flying a cub off of a treadmill had to much at all to do with the question in this now-famous image, a cub is practically as different from a jetlliner as a robinson-44 is.
Mythbusters answer didn't respond to the question asked in pic related.
What do you think about it?

I think we all remember the massive amounts of speculation that went on surrounding this image and I think that we all also remember that this debate was "settled in the lab" by mythbusters, who flew a piper cub off of a treadmill.
For people who are familiar with how airplanes actually work (as opposed to the average cable TV viewing couch potato), you probably realize that the way a STOL piston prop like a cub attains flight is very, very different from a 767 heavy jetliner. People familiar with small prop planes, especially people who have seen stuff like "long props and big rocks" will recognize that under the right wind conditions, a cub can take off and land pretty much like a chopper. The rest of you all know that an airplane attains lift by the suction created when air moves over the wings and that the cub's prop's slipstream moves a massive amount of air over the cub's wings at very high speed, something that a jet aircraft does not do.
i don't want to be any more longwinded and boring than i've already been, but the tl;dr version of this is that i don't think mythbuster's flying a cub off of a treadmill had to much at all to do with the question in this now-famous image, a cub is practically as different from a jetlliner as a robinson-44 is.
Mythbusters answer didn't respond to the question asked in pic related.
What do you think about it?