Long-time readers of this blog will remember the series of posts about the famous plane and the conveyor belt question (2, 3, 4). Well, as promised, the Mythbusters tested it and will air the results this December:

If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and that conveyor belt is matching the speed in reverse, can the plane take off? “We put the plane on a quarter-mile conveyor belt and tested it out,’” says Savage about the experiment using a pilot and his Ultralight plane. “I won’t tell you what the outcome was, but the pilot and his entire flight club got it wrong.”

I can’t wait to see the plane take flight.