Re: superhero space navigation

Androcles wrote:
> Flying around the solar system by dead-reckoning is about as useful
> as tits on a bull.

If you can pull 10G forever it's fine, just spot the planet you want to 
go to and fly that way. You'll probably want a watch so you can time 
when to switch from acceleration to deceleration, though. :)

> Ah, now, fiction is often inaccurate and any correction can only be an
> improvement. "The Harrier's twin engines screamed" made me want to
> puke, it only has one. Same with the satellite that was stationary over
> the North Pole, another impossibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statite

Though this is a bit of an unusual case and takes a bit of work to make 
happen, so probably whatever work of fiction you're referring to here 
was still wrong.