Atmospheric speed of SW fighters

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-21 07:24pm

When arguing with that fucknut Galaxy at SB.com, I came up with this list of SW craft breaking orbit or landing very very quickly. How many of these are really applicable?

Ep1:
Silver SR-71 o' Doom leaves Tatooine and/or Naboo in as much time as it takes Jinn to walk from the boarding ramp to the cockpit.
Anakin Skywalker breaks orbit in the time it takes Amidala's group to walk from room to room.
Ep2:
Probably Dooku's escape from Geonosis.
Ep4:
Millenium Falcon leaves Tatooine so fast that Solo is surprised that a message got out to the ISDs above.
X-Wings leave Yavin 4 in a miniscule fraction of 15 minutes (note that the longer you want them to be in the atmosphere, the faster they went between the moon and the DS1).
Ep5:
As ships escape the blockade, the events go like this: shield dropped, ships launched, ion cannon fired, shields raised. The shields could not have been down more than (extremely generously) a minute.
We see a continuous view from Luke's cockpit flying into Dagobah, and from the outside of the atmosphere to the ground is well under a minute.
The Millenium Falcon goes from the Bespin city to out of orbit in the time it takes Luke to walk across the Falcon.
Ep6:
No examples come to mind.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-06-21 08:11pm

All of them are applicable.

About the Episode V one, I think the novelization said it was for about 10 seconds or so. I'm not sure.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-21 09:44pm

I think the Dagobah one may be the most concrete. IIRC, there were no screen cuts whatsoever.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-06-21 10:47pm

I find it amazing how fast he goes into Dagobah but does not plunge straight through the swamp but instead crash right near the surface.......some brakes

~JAson

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-21 11:01pm

He started the landing cycle.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-21 11:01pm

I suppose if you REALLY wanted to know how fast they could go, you could analyize all the fighters all the fighters based on drag and whatnot to figure out what their burn speed would be in a standard earth atmosphere and then use thatas an upper limit.

Be a royal pain in the ass though.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-21 11:07pm

Then we have ICS for Episode II which gives the Jedi fighters atmospheric speed as being 12,000kph.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-06-22 03:03am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Then we have ICS for Episode II which gives the Jedi fighters atmospheric speed as being 12,000kph.

The problem is, Galaxy would spout some of the usual ICS-denying babble.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-22 03:29am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Then we have ICS for Episode II which gives the Jedi fighters atmospheric speed as being 12,000kph.
The problem is, Galaxy would spout some of the usual ICS-denying babble.

He's currently using the EU to back his claim, so he can't do that without invalidating his whole argument.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-06-22 10:31am

Howedar wrote:He started the landing cycle.

*smacks head* Oy I forgot...it's been a long time.....a long long time..~Jason

Jaris Merc · Post by **Jaris Merc** » 2003-06-22 11:44am

I recall in tattoine sun * fuck i cant remember how the freaking thing is spelled* the Falcon was going to fast in atmosphere that there was a fire ball beind them and a huge dust cloud caused by there speed. * huge as in klicks high and wide*

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2003-06-22 11:50am

Jaris Merc wrote:I recall in tattoine sun * fuck i cant remember how the freaking thing is spelled* the Falcon was going to fast in atmosphere that there was a fire ball beind them and a huge dust cloud caused by there speed. * huge as in klicks high and wide*

It's Taottine's Ghost, and Chewie was doing just under burn speed in the atmosphere because he didn't want to flatten all the homesteads