# Physics Question **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/physics-question/102635 "2006-12-22T07:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![louis110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecae2f/32.png) [@louis110](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/louis110)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/physics-question/102635/30 "2006-12-22T10:00:24Z")
> [@Lamborghini JALPA](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lamborghini-jalpa/10706/7): > > “firstly, a plane is basically a car with wings” > > hmmm is it… > > lets place a plane and a car floating in the vacuum of space …and see which one can move forward…(provided you have oxygen on board to power the engines 🙂 > > the wheels spinning in the air…or the plane moving forward from thrust… > > these are 2 VASTLY different types of locomotion… i see what you’re trying to get at but the types of locomotion are simliar. the energy is just applied to different methods of creating ‘thrust’. a car sends energy to the crankshaft which in turns the driveshaft spinning the wheels. a plane applies energy to the crankshaft which is applied to the propeller. a jet engine just provides a large amount of force in one direction (oh guess what, land speed record cars use jet engines!) so my statement is still valid. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/physics-question/102635)._