sparkthatbled Wrote:Of course, the fighters the heroes are using are made to work in both air and space, so they can't be much like the Starfury. But the planes would have vectored thrusters and other tricks, once they figure out the "no friction in space" rule.
if they can do anything besides go in a straight line in space, then they can do this to some degree.... i wish i could remember the book, but some hard-sf book i ran into years ago had the comment that, while the driving force in atmo is power (if you have more power, you can run away, catch up or whatever) the driving force in space is delta-v. i.e. the faster you can change the direction you're going the better, since there is really only one speed limit in space, it's just a question of how fast you get there
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