Star Wars has kinda a reputation for being 'soft' sci-fi, but really the TIE Fighter is a fairly sophisiticated design for a zero-G fighter. No wings, no landing gear, not especially aerodynamic.
red5-626 said:
You don’t get out of a TIE fighter!
You don’t land a TIE fighter!
You get in fly off and then die.
Darth Vader has the only TIE fighter that can land.
^my signature.
Anyway, does it really matter how you get in or out?
This really didn't deserve a thread.
TV's Frink said:
Out of TIE fighter.
Survival is not for me.
Screw you, Lord Vader.
I'm thinking we should have a thread dedicated entirely to Star Wars haikus (or maybe just poetry in general).
Care to whip up a sonnet now Frink? :)
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corellian77 said:
TV's Frink said:
Out of TIE fighter.
Survival is not for me.
Screw you, Lord Vader.I'm thinking we should have a thread dedicated entirely to Star Wars haikus
Make it so.
You use the hatch on the top-it opens by splitting down the middle. (At least according to my Kenner TIE..) I guess you would use tubes like mentioned before but there probably would have been an X-wing type ladder if there had ever been the need to show TIE pilots taking off or landing.
These were simply meant to be space cannon fodder. No shields, no advanced weapons, no hyperdrive, no real life support capability and total disregard for the pilots.
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This whole topic is explained in "Star Wars - Incredible Cross Sections" (which is an absolutely AMAZING book, btw). And stop ripping on the guy for asking a question.
TIE fighters set down into a docking bay and the pilots get out via ladder. The TIEs are then taken to maintenance (if they need it) and "docked" into these overhanging holders from the ceiling, ready for their next mission. Pilots get to them from catwalks along the ceilings before being launched. This means that most pilots will never be in the same TIE fighter more than once.
Edit: Here is the picture of the launching dock from the book (minus the descriptive text.) But you can see the catwalks and the two TIE fighters turning into the launching queue from the back of the line.
In Rebel Assault II, there was TIE Phantom which had a little elevator that came out from the bottom and lift the pilot(s) into the cockpit.
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"Entrance into the TIE/Ln Fighter is via a large hatch on the rear of the Pod. It appears to be an engine fairing, but is not. Drawings of the TIE/Ln from SW-IV: ANH indicate this as the primary ingress/egress point. The hinge detail is even finely done in this model kit - note the tiny M4 Sherman Bogie Truck in the photo below. This kind of detail is commensurate with the same methods the original model makers used in building the studio models. It is great to see it replicated by Fine Molds in this release too."
http://www.guntruck.com/TIEFighterReview.html
From what I remember back in the day, it was the toy that started the top hatch craze.
As a kid I always thought they'd get in from underneath.
In the later comics the top hatch is used when ejecting too.
Frankly, I don't really care and popular opinion and more toys have the hatch on top unlike the original plan (which might have been hinged to put in the rod when bluescreening?)