RE: Can It Take Off??
And because there are bearings in the wheels, until they burn up and lock up, they can't retard the forward movement of the airplane enough to do anything at all to it's ability to take off. And you saw exactly that happen on TV. Twice. Once with the model and once with the fullscale with it'd disbelieving pilot.
Everyone watching the show saw the airplanes take off. What about what everyone saw actually didn't happen?