The difference being that the aircraft carrier is moving the same direction the plane is landing. Not only that, but it still doesn't answer the question of stopping in a small space. When those jet fighters stop abruptly on an aircraft carrier, they use giant tow wires and stop quickly enough...
See, I would think that the plane would continue off the end of the conveyor, as it still has it's main forward inertia through space.
Maybe this is what your saying...
I guess what I can't conceive here is that the plane is going forward, and when it hits the conveyor belt, it isn't supposed to go forward any more. The idea being that it really is still going forward, but on the conveyor belt now. This just doesn't seem possible to me.
For arguments sake we'll say that braking is done the way a 747 usually brakes, that being reverse thrust and wheel brakes.
Your answer seems like it doesn't follow the question, although that is probably my fault. Let me restate.
A plane is landing. Instead of a long runway, you have a...
Airplane on a conveyor belt (sorta)
Before I get the, "This has already been talked about in another thread," let me just state my case.
The question here is not about taking off, but of landing.
I was discussing the Mythbuster's experiment of the airplane on a conveyor belt with some...