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Re: FT: Pushing past Thrust limits

From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@a...>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:08:33 -0700
Subject: Re: FT: Pushing past Thrust limits

 laserlight <laserlight@mci2000.com> wrote:

[snip]

>Your position is ALWAYS predictable to the same degree, regardless of
your
>current speed.  Next turn you will be within 1 turn's thrust of your
>projected endpoint.  Did I miss something that relates turning ability
to
>speed?

No, you are entirely right. What I should have said is that in relation
to
speed, the maneuver envelope is the same, and depending on the thrust,
possibly quite limited.

Schoon

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