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Old 12-07-2006, 11:34 AM   #34
dar512
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Flint. The wheels don't matter as far as forward motion is concerned. As the graphic that UT says, the wheels will just spin twice as fast. It doesn't matter how fast the treadmill is going backward, because the plane's pushing against the air, not the ground.
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