Você já deve ter ouvido falar deste mito, o que aconteceria se um avião estivesse em uma esteira movendo-se na direção contrária e em igual velocidade, ou seja, enquanto o avião vai pra frente, a esteira gira e ele ficaria teoricamente “parado” no mesmo lugar, será que ele voa ?

Os Caçadores de Mitos (no Discovery, não aquele lixo que transformaram ao colocar no Fantástico) vão fazer este teste no dia 12 e provar de uma vez por todas o que vai acontecer.

Airplane Hour
(Weds., December 12 at 9 PM ET/PT)
Adam and Jamie find out if either of them can safely land a Boeing 747-400 on a runway in varying weather conditions. Meanwhile, Kari, Tory and Grant risk life and limb to investigate skydiving myths regularly featured in Hollywood action films. Is it possible to catch up with someone in freefall if that person jumps out a plane before you do? Can you really hold a conversation during freefall? And would you survive if you opened your parachute only a few feet off the ground? Finally, Adam and Jamie carefully navigate their way through a myth that has baffled everyone from web bloggers to pilots. If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and the belt is matching that speed in the opposite direction, can the plane take off? Extensive small-scale testing with a super treadmill and a nearly uncontrollable model airplane don’t completely resolve the myth, so our flight cadets supersize the myth with help from a willing pilot and his Ultralight flying machine.