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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Nope.
It's all about the airspeed over the wings: the wings need to be moving fast enough for the airspeed to provide enough downward force to create lift (the thing about low pressure above the wing sucking the plane skywards is apparently not as important as we were all told in school).
Or something. I don't know, I'm not a physicist.
Now, if the question was "could a very strong wind blowing toward a stationary plane cause it to take off?" that'd be a different matter...
(, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 1:56, Reply)

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