Yes you would need a 'park' and you wouldn't need that dog-leg section at the end of the cocpit-corridor to meet the ladder either. You could just rotate to lineup the ladder tunnel wth the cockpit-corridor for enrty. You could probaly make the upper and lower corridors rotate with a fixed tunnnel ladder but that would be unwieldy and dumb.
With this plan you'd need to reshape or remove the inner wall of those upper and lower corridors to alow the ladder to rotate inside them.
At this stage (not giving it alot of thought) the best solution would be to leave the ladder-tunnel fixed (top+bottom turrets indipendant) and have the position of the tunnel being seen on film as an instance of it, just at that time, lining up with the ladder as it moves. Of course, there's no need for doors sealing off the tunnel at either end 'cause people like having their limbs lopped off when the turret rotates.
Craig, having the gunners compartment rotate in action and the tunnel then being closed off by the interior bulkhead doesn't mean there is a danger of amputation. After all, elevator doors work just fine. Only concern would be to have a manual means to align the opening to the tunnel in case the normal operation fails (what! something fails on the MF?) But that is easily dealt with by a hand crank!
Either we trust the technology or we don't...it has always been clear to me this was the way it worked, if the guns were to rotate although such motion is really not necessary.
Face it, if you analyze the ship's features logically you see much is complete nonsense. For example, the gunner's "window" is practically useless as a viewport (it 'pokes inward'). Plus, organic bits cannot possibly deal with the velocities involved visually (heck, B-29 gunners had it really tough against early jets... and those are subsonic velocities.) If the gun's computer provides a targeting display and the gunner has to push a 'trigger' to fire
only once the display shows 'locked' then why doesn't it fire automatically? Why aren't the guns automatically driven by computer with a gunner providing target priorities & permission to fire? Again, given the velocities involved, guns that are only practical in the transverse field (to the sides) are essentially useless unless you want to fire 'broadsides'... in a chase scenario, better to have aft facing weapons. Yet, again, once you achieve your desired velocity vector, I suppose you can simply translate the ship perpendicular to the forward vector and then your side-ways firing weapons can be used against trailing targets... wouldn't that look cool! ;^P
Regards, Robert
Better that the MF had bigger versions of the robotic underbelly gun than the features they depict in the movie...ha! Lucas did like his 'battle of Britain' visuals.
Also do you plan to do a side view cross section of the Landing gears showing deployed and stored position?
