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Old 18th Jan 2018, 19:21
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Mythbusters did an episode on this a few years back - I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere. They do a good job of explaining things in layman's terms.
But the short answer, as others have noted, is the conveyor belt doesn't do squat - airplane performance is governed by airspeed, not ground speed.
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