Star Wars' Ships Have Terrible Aerodynamic Designs

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-sh...gns-1826981844

When you’re flying around in space, where there’s no air or wind resistance,
aerodynamics aren’t important. That’s why the Star Trek Borg ship is just a
giant cube and still works just fine. But when ships are also visiting planets
with atmospheres, aerodynamics do come into play—and apparently neither the
Rebels nor the Empire in Star Wars know the first thing about properly designing
flying vehicles.

YouTuber EC Henry brought 3D models of popular Star Wars ships into an
application from Autodesk called Flow Design that can simulate and illustrate
how a vehicle moves through various mediums, like the breathable air that seems
to exist on most planets in a galaxy far, far away.

https://youtu.be/PilQTjw1Qis

The iconic X-wing, which can travel through space at the speed of light, is
actually far less aerodynamic than the comparatively primitive fighter jets we
use here on Earth. Even worse is the Empire’s TIE fighter, which is an
aerodynamic disaster and would be outmaneuvered by even a mynock any time it
tried to do battle on a planet’s surface—despite what movies like The Force
Awakens would have you believe.


more at
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...-aerodynamics/




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On 20 Jun 2018 20:21:09 -0700, Miloch
wrote:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-sh...gns-1826981844

When you’re flying around in space, where there’s no air or wind resistance,
aerodynamics aren’t important. That’s why the Star Trek Borg ship is just a
giant cube and still works just fine. But when ships are also visiting planets
with atmospheres, aerodynamics do come into play—and apparently neither the
Rebels nor the Empire in Star Wars know the first thing about properly designing
flying vehicles.

YouTuber EC Henry brought 3D models of popular Star Wars ships into an
application from Autodesk called Flow Design that can simulate and illustrate
how a vehicle moves through various mediums, like the breathable air that seems
to exist on most planets in a galaxy far, far away.

https://youtu.be/PilQTjw1Qis

The iconic X-wing, which can travel through space at the speed of light, is
actually far less aerodynamic than the comparatively primitive fighter jets we
use here on Earth. Even worse is the Empire’s TIE fighter, which is an
aerodynamic disaster and would be outmaneuvered by even a mynock any time it
tried to do battle on a planet’s surface—despite what movies like The Force
Awakens would have you believe.


more at
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...-aerodynamics/

Fun!

On the other hand, all the Star Wars space flight scenes show the
dynamics of atmospheric flight - curved banking turns, smoke trails...

On 20 Jun 2018 20:21:09 -0700, Miloch
wrote:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-sh...gns-1826981844

When you’re flying around in space, where there’s no air or wind resistance,
aerodynamics aren’t important. That’s why the Star Trek Borg ship is just a
giant cube and still works just fine. But when ships are also visiting planets
with atmospheres, aerodynamics do come into play—and apparently neither the
Rebels nor the Empire in Star Wars know the first thing about properly designing
flying vehicles.

YouTuber EC Henry brought 3D models of popular Star Wars ships into an
application from Autodesk called Flow Design that can simulate and illustrate
how a vehicle moves through various mediums, like the breathable air that seems
to exist on most planets in a galaxy far, far away.

https://youtu.be/PilQTjw1Qis

The iconic X-wing, which can travel through space at the speed of light, is
actually far less aerodynamic than the comparatively primitive fighter jets we
use here on Earth. Even worse is the Empire’s TIE fighter, which is an
aerodynamic disaster and would be outmaneuvered by even a mynock any time it
tried to do battle on a planet’s surface—despite what movies like The Force
Awakens would have you believe.


more at
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cul...-aerodynamics/




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Why is anyone even wasting time on this?...