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the plane will take off if the conveyor belt gets fast enough. saying that there is no air flow over the wings is retarded. the conveyor belt causes viscous drag on the air above it, and forces the air over the wings corresponding to a velocity profile that is in chapter one of any fluid dynamics book.
it's the same reason your canoe slows down after you row it. if the conveyor belt is acutally going 3000 mph relative to the plane, the air speed right at the edge of the belt is also 3000 mph relative to the plane. (that is a fact, don't debate it.) this speed drops off drastically, but it might be 100 mph by the wing. which would create lift, and the plane would take off and instantly be carried backwards unless it was producing trust of its own.
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No. We've already stipulated that the whole thing is a completely frictionless system. (Yes thats impossible, but equally as impossible is a plane with magic wheels that somehow move at a different speed from the plane at the moment of takeoff). No friction caused by the conveyer belt moving means no air flow. And what you suggesteed has already been suggested about 20 pages back, and tossed out because of this.
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