Lets talk all things Star Wars

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Well you have the problem of everything official not mentioning a capsule for the X-Wing. The B-Wing and some Y-Wings do do that apparently. In all the X-Wing books the seats just launch like a real world fighter jet. Then a shield pops on, either on the pilot or on their seat. Some comics have shown some kind of oxygen mask, but I'm guessing that would be manual where it's stowed on the seat and the pilot has to equip it. Basically it looked like the early SW stuff where they thought about using an oxygen mask.

 

[Joek3rr]

Not exactly, the launch ports/tubes are pretty well forward of and below the cockpit, and looking at both images of the ejection module and an image of an X-wing from the famous approaching the Death Star shot from ANH, it's no problem. The fuselage of the X-Wing under the cockpit is pretty thick and is nearly the tallest part of the X-Wing so I don't see any problems with running launch tubes underneath the cockpit ejection module, esp. if you put the magazine behind the cockpit.

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According to all the cross sections. The torpedo magazine is right under the pilot.

That last one, I can't find a higher resolution. But the torpedoes are colored bright red, so you can still make them out.

 

[Riceball]

According to all the cross sections. The torpedo magazine is right under the pilot.

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That last one, I can't find a higher resolution. But the torpedoes are colored bright red, so you can still make them out.

Looking at the middle cutaway, it shows that there's still room under the cockpit floor and the torpedo magazine. And looking at EC's concept there's nothing directly underneath the cockpit escape module that would get in the way of the magazine. IIRC, the thruster nozzles are at the very front and (maybe) rear of the cockpit module so there's no conflict there. And assuming that repulsor lift works in space, the escape module doesn't even really need those nozzles, at least none that large outside of ejecting the cockpit module, thrust could be provided by repulsor lift, once again, assuming that they work in space.

 

[Joek3rr]

Looking at the middle cutaway, it shows that there's still room under the cockpit floor and the torpedo magazine. And looking at EC's concept there's nothing directly underneath the cockpit escape module that would get in the way of the magazine. IIRC, the thruster nozzles are at the very front and (maybe) rear of the cockpit module so there's no conflict there. And assuming that repulsor lift works in space, the escape module doesn't even really need those nozzles, at least none that large outside of ejecting the cockpit module, thrust could be provided by repulsor lift, once again, assuming that they work in space.

Yeah there is a little space. But I don't think it's enough for what EC Henry is proposing. His pod looks like it would fill up the whole fuselage right there.

 

[blewis17]

Yeah there is a little space. But I don't think it's enough for what EC Henry is proposing. His pod looks like it would fill up the whole fuselage right there.

Why not just have the torpedo pods be part of the ejection system pod? When you eject, the torpedo pods are still attached to the ejection pod and leave the ship with you.

 

[Joek3rr]

Why not just have the torpedo pods be part of the ejection system pod? When you eject, the pods are still attached to the pod and leave the ship with you.

I dunno.... Seems unnecessarily hazardous. I wouldn't want torpedoes following me when I eject. Lol

 

[Riceball]

I dunno.... Seems unnecessarily hazardous. I wouldn't want torpedoes following me when I eject. Lol

The simple thing would be that the magazine goes with the pod but after a certain distance, the magazine gets ejected. Then after it's a certain distance away, it self destructs.

 

[Somerset]

Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the purpose for an ejection system, but aren't our views here being a little-too based on atmospheric flight where you would get the chance to eject because you were damaged and 'going down' either towards land or sea?

In space, if you're ship is damaged but not in danger of being destroyed would there be any need to eject, since essentially you'll just continue with whatever momentum you already had, likely out of the dogfight area.

Most of the pilots' deaths we see in Star Wars couldn't have been prevented by ejecting because their ships are destroyed almost instantaneously, and the four or so that could have potentially survived (Red Leader (ANH), Grey 3 (RotJ), Green Leader (RotJ) and Blue Leader (RO) ) chose not to eject!

What's the consensus on the body we see flung from the TIE in the asteroid field, and clone pilot destroyed by Tri-Fighters in RotS?

 

[bwayne64]

Dayum, X wings have their pilots sitting on explosives like some Russian tanks. Well it was a long time ago, and far, far, away, so shouldn't expect them to learn from our mistakes,
; )

 

[Joek3rr]

Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the purpose for an ejection system, but aren't our views here being a little-too based on atmospheric flight where you would get the chance to eject because you were damaged and 'going down' either towards land or sea?

In space, if you're ship is damaged but not in danger of being destroyed would there be any need to eject, since essentially you'll just continue with whatever momentum you already had, likely out of the dogfight area.

Most of the pilots' deaths we see in Star Wars couldn't have been prevented by ejecting because their ships are destroyed almost instantaneously, and the four or so that could have potentially survived (Red Leader (ANH), Grey 3 (RotJ), Green Leader (RotJ) and Blue Leader (RO) ) chose not to eject!

What's the consensus on the body we see flung from the TIE in the asteroid field, and clone pilot destroyed by Tri-Fighters in RotS?

Yeah most ships just get blown to bits. You would hardly get a chance to eject. But nevertheless I would think it would be something most pilots would like. At least then there's a chance of survival. And, per the dialogue in ANH we know X-wings are capable of ejecting their pilots.

I've thought the pilots were probably killed by the force of the explosion. If not, they probably survived.

 

[Joek3rr]

Dayum, X wings have their pilots sitting on explosives like some Russian tanks. Well it was a long time ago, and far, far, away, so shouldn't expect them to learn from our mistakes,
; )

A common problem with Star Wars craft, is they often forget to think about where weapons, crew, equipment, storage, or droids are going to go.

For the X-wing it would be more practical to have torpedoes behind the pilot, under the astromech. But ESB already established that the ship has it's cargo space there. That leaves right under the pilot as the only space left to put them.

 

[bwayne64]

Yep, there's only so much space to go around. Especially in a sleek ship like the
X wing. I'm sure the safeties on the torpedoes are top of the line, but when the X wing gets hit anywhere in the fuselage, it's off to the force with the pilot. I would expect this sort of engineering from the empire, which doesn't care two flips about it's pilots, but not the republic. I keep forgetting the republic is not as squeaky clean as was once portrayed. But if you need torpedoes for pesky things like Death Stars, whaddya gonna do.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Yeah most ships just get blown to bits. You would hardly get a chance to eject. But nevertheless I would think it would be something most pilots would like. At least then there's a chance of survival. And, per the dialogue in ANH we know X-wings are capable of ejecting their pilots.

I've thought the pilots were probably killed by the force of the explosion. If not, they probably survived.

I think, other than that they didn't write it, that pilots in the movies don't eject (despite direction to do so for Porkins) because they are hit with a continuous attack. I think the X-Wing shields will help with glancing hits, but not a barrage. So it's possible at range that a TIE could chip away at the X-Wing's shield, take it down, then damage the ship, and the pilot could still eject.

 

[Joek3rr]

A little teaser for a project I've been working on for the past few months.

 

[ghostryder]

 

[JediMichael]

I got thinking here that hopefully someone can help. I expect this would need math and distance understanding to figure out....which I'm not so good at.
The death star is 160 km, or basically 100 miles across. I have five screenshots here, which in the movie itself, only cover like 30 seconds, but I'm pretty sure that would really be more of a movie pacing time thing that showing how fast they are going....but I was wondering, per numbered shot below, how far away are our x-wings from the death star, in miles. (Yeah, I'm American, it will be easier for me...lol)
This has probably already been figured out and somewhere either on this site, or somewhere on the internet...
Shot 5 will be interesting, because while not too far from the surface, its still a pretty big station and therefore might be 1 mile, ten miles, or 1000 feet....I have no idea but just thought it cool to know if anyone has any type of answer.

 

[Master Boda]

I got thinking here that hopefully someone can help. I expect this would need math and distance understanding to figure out....which I'm not so good at.
The death star is 160 km, or basically 100 miles across. I have five screenshots here, which in the movie itself, only cover like 30 seconds, but I'm pretty sure that would really be more of a movie pacing time thing that showing how fast they are going....but I was wondering, per numbered shot below, how far away are our x-wings from the death star, in miles. (Yeah, I'm American, it will be easier for me...lol)
This has probably already been figured out and somewhere either on this site, or somewhere on the internet...
Shot 5 will be interesting, because while not too far from the surface, its still a pretty big station and therefore might be 1 mile, ten miles, or 1000 feet....I have no idea but just thought it cool to know if anyone has any type of answer.

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I would guess around 238,855 miles.We know the Deathstar was orbiting Yavin so the X-wings left Yavin and went towards the Deathstar.At it’s closest the moon is 238,855 miles from earth so that is where I came up with the number,assuming the Deathstar was not at a closer orbit to Yavin.

 

[ghostryder]

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[blewis17]

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Carrie was 25/turned 26 years old while filming ROTJ. She was NOT a wall flower on the set, either.


Looks like she's flashing George from this angle... and he notices!

Here she is with her FIRST gold bikini!

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Ah, Carrie Fisher.

A few things strike me from the plethora of behind the scenes photos on the interwebs.

Carrie was most certainly a BIG flirt.
One of those girls that you knew in high school, that would "hang off" of guys and LOVED the attention.
So much so that, if you were one of those guys, it made you think you actually had a chance with her (even though you probably didn't).
The kind of girl that would show you attention, and you couldn't help but read more into it.
And just when you got the nerve to ask her out, you'd find out that she had been dating some college sophomore from across town for the whole school year... and his name was Harrison Ford (you can't tell me there wasn't more than just a one night stand with those two).

Carrie was attractive enough to pull that attitude off, and not get in serious trouble for it

 

[Riceball]

Carrie was 25/turned 26 years old while filming ROTJ. She was NOT a wall flower on the set, wither.

I remember reading somewhere that in ANH she was originally going to have her breasts taped down and then she was going to let someone on set rip the tape off either at the end of each day or the end of production, I don't recall if when it was supposed to happen was ever mentioned.