Ngl I’ve always hated spaceships with those swivel designs.
To me they would be incredibly difficult to pilot since you have to maintain awareness of its position at all times which is already hard enough in a 3d dogfight.
And all that extra difficulty for what? I don’t see any real advantages to the design.
This concludes my rant about something that doesn’t actually exist. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I always assumed the foils were more for sensors than anything else, increase the size of the aperture to get better resolution, etc.
As for the rotating cockpit, I always assumed it was fixed more or less except you could spin it for different kinds of flying (like nap of the earth flying, orient so the fighter/bomber is above you, etc.)
But I also assumed that the b wing was ridiculously fast but turned for shit, in order to get into a capital ships defenses, drop payload and back out with minimal exposure.
Alas, I was a child and they had to make them stupid.
https://swse.fandom.com/wiki/B-Wing_Starfighter
Ngl I’ve always hated spaceships with those swivel designs.
To me they would be incredibly difficult to pilot since you have to maintain awareness of its position at all times which is already hard enough in a 3d dogfight.
And all that extra difficulty for what? I don’t see any real advantages to the design.
This concludes my rant about something that doesn’t actually exist. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Me too. It’s adding extra complexity and points of failure.
Looks cool though.
Solution: just don’t swivel during dogfights. Only switch to barbecue mode when not facing enemies.
I always assumed the foils were more for sensors than anything else, increase the size of the aperture to get better resolution, etc.
As for the rotating cockpit, I always assumed it was fixed more or less except you could spin it for different kinds of flying (like nap of the earth flying, orient so the fighter/bomber is above you, etc.)
But I also assumed that the b wing was ridiculously fast but turned for shit, in order to get into a capital ships defenses, drop payload and back out with minimal exposure.
Alas, I was a child and they had to make them stupid.