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the conveyor-belt runway will accellerate in the same direction as the plane, causing the wheels to remain motionless (relative to the plane and conveyor-belt).


This is the confusion due to the extremely poorly-worded question.

  • One group of people think the question means the conveyer belt moves with the plane, keeping the wheels stationary (or rather, non-rotating).
  • The other group thinks the question means the belt moves against the plane, in an attempt to keep the center of mass of the plane stationary.


Your analysis falls into the first group.
Almost everyone else on this thread has been analyzing this from the second perspective.

I think it is pretty obvious for "Group A" people that the plane takes off and the wheels don't spin.

It is for all the people who interpreted this question in the "Group B" style that this discussion is mostly about.