[Wolfman77]

Yup, computers could do the trick there. And with some sort of Thrust vectoring you could control it's tendancy to pitch throughout each burn. It would still have poor manuverability though.

Nice ship, btw. I guess these problems won't matter for you ship much but they are still fun to discuss. Grav plating sound ok to me, but then I'm ok with just about anything in sci-fi. At least there are not any commonly accepted theories that prohibit it from functioning (well none that I'm aware of anyway).