On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 22:27:07 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:10:13 +0200, hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter
>J. Holzer) wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 10:12:30 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>>>What do you mean, 'gravity' :) I was talking with spaceships in mind.
>>
>>Spaceships don't bank (unless they are in a movie :-)
>
>The ones I've designed as a kid do. And they had to, because the
>design of the thrusters was done so.

Hmm, the ships I designed when I was a kid had their thrusters at the
back, just like a plane or the ships in Star Wars (I was ten years old
when that came out). 


won't fly a curve, with the axis of the ship tangential to the curve.

the direction you are going now and the opposite of the direction you
want to go. Then you will fire your thrusters until you are flying in

that it points in the "right" direction.

Apart from the spins at the start and the end of the maneuver, the
g-force will always point straight to the back of the ship.

Of course you may have designed your ships differently.

	hp

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