Will the Airplane Fly??????????

[mbeige]

The speed which the runway runs, or even if it's going forwards or backwards, has absolutely nothing to do with the wind on the plane's wings!

Good night sir.

Actually, it does. Can you walk? How do you walk? You exert force on the ground. What if the ground played a trick on you and instead of being hard and firm, it moved at the exact opposite direction you're walking, instantly, and matched your speed accurately? Let's say you were able to find handrails to guide you, but the ground still matched your speed nonetheless (maintaining the original condition of the question). Will you get anywhere?

Here, and in Niky's statement, the wind = handrails. Your hands = engines.