[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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I'm going to agree with goofball. According to the phrasing of the OP, the plane is not moving. It's not that the plane is stationary because the plane is like a car and thrust by its wheels, nor because it's physically impossible for the plane to move relative to the ground/air when on a conveyor belt, but rather, the plane is stationary because that's how the problem has been defined. If the plane moves forward any amount relative to the ground such that lifting off would become possible, the criteria laid out in the OP (wheels movement = conveyor movement) is no longer met.

This is not about aerospace engineering, rather so much as it is about reading comprehension (or more precisely, poor phrasing in the original post).

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I second this

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This is exactly correct, and as a side note, I'm sitting right next to NLSoldier, and when he saw this, he said "Don't worry, Pat will come back on and pwn him in a sec!"

Somone tell that donk he owes me 400$....I mean seriously, he just said "I wasn't going to make you pay anyway."

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If you guys can wait (possibly days - my schedule's tight), I'll come up with a full explanation of the whole thing, completely with pictures and everything. Don't get too excited, because it really isn't nearly as complicated as everyone's making it out to be. I really shouldn't even be looking at this right now, but I can't help it - I need to just shut my laptop down.