CP3S said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

So many things logicaly wrong with the Naboo Starfighter and the hanger. Like it is physicaly impossible for them to land back into those gaps down the side...

Who's to say they have to land in those alcoves? Maybe they just land in the hanger...

But as I said they can't land at all.

Granted they could belly land like a stricken B-17 into the hard marble hanger bay floor and the pilot could rush out before it catches fire. Then some astro droids could use those angry red penis hoses that line the hanger bay to put the flames out. Then a robot arm could pickup the wreck and put it back into the alcove. Maybe that's why the Naboo don't have enough pilots to man all the ships... because 50% of them don't survive the landings.

Perhaps to further speculate... that's why the great Ric Ollie doesn't return to Eps II&III. He probably died trying to land after knocking out the Droid ship. Also maybe Anakin's shorter hair at the end of TPM was less a Jedi Padawan buzz cut and more that his hair was singed off in the fireball on impact.

Still seems like a minor design flaw though to me. Maybe because they are "a peaceful race" they've never had to use the fighters before and nobody realised that they couldn't land them.