how does a tie fighter land?

is there an illustration showing a tie fighter landed with its landing gear?i always saw them flying ,never saw 'em landed on ground or whtever..

 

They sit on their wing panels.

 

They can land on their wing panels (like the toys do) or they are stored in racks that suspend them off the ground, and they are sent into space via tractor beam.

Of course, that is all EU, so take it as you will.

In the OT, by the way, we do see TIE fighters parked...on the first Death Star, when Han is chasing the stormtroopers, and comes around the corner to find dozens of troopers waiting for him, a TIE is in the background of the room.

And then in ROTJ, when Vader's shuttle lands, you can see a TIE bomber craft parked in the same hangar.

 

Actually, the racks are not just EU. You can see them briefly at the beginning of ROTJ. When Vader's shuttle leaves the star destroyer, you can see the two TIEs being released from their racks in the second hangar bay.

 

^ Sweet. I never noticed that before; I'll have to watch for it.

The other hint that TIEs are meant to be suspended from racks, not landed on the ground, is their entry hatches are on top of the cockpits. The pilot just drops right in.

 

Perhaps the absents of landing-gear is the Empires way of saying "Ride or die" "Do or die" "Kamakazi", there is no landing.

 

"No, land not! Die, or die not. There is no land."

That didn't make much sense, did it?

 

Perhaps the absents of landing-gear is the Empires way of saying "Ride or die" "Do or die" "Kamakazi", there is no landing.

I actually always viewed the TIE's simplistic design as a cost cutting, efficiency measure. It costs far more to install landing gear than to not, and TIEs parked next to each other in the manner that the Rebels park their X-Wings and Y-Wings together, as opposed to the highly compact (in comparsion) rack storage system, would take up precious space on an ISD.

After all, why splurge on what is essentially an expendable insect with twin laser cannons?

 

In JEDI you can see Vader's tie fight hanging in the Death Star bay, so its not just EU that shows that the hang.
Now the tracker beam idea sounds a little dumb that is why i have a problem with EU. Dumb ideas.
What's next? A bird that can make a Jedi lose his powers when he is near?

 

All of the above makes sense. I should point out that in the '77 adaption of SW by Marvel Comics, it shows Vader climbing into his TIE via the canopy on the front.

 

In the OT, by the way, we do see TIE fighters parked...on the first Death Star, when Han is chasing the stormtroopers, and comes around the corner to find dozens of troopers waiting for him, a TIE is in the background of the room.

And then in ROTJ, when Vader's shuttle lands, you can see a TIE bomber craft parked in the same hangar.

The TIE Fighter in the first Death Star and the TIE Bomber in the second Death Star are both on racks. And the fins are too delicate to land on.

In JEDI you can see Vader's tie fight hanging in the Death Star bay,

It was a TIE Bomber.

 

did i see vader tie hanging up in ANH? I saw it some place I thought!

 

did i see vader tie hanging up in ANH? I saw it some place I thought!

You're talking about the scene at the beginning of ROTJ where Vader's shuttle lands on the Death Star. To one side you see the wing of a TIE craft with similar bent wings to Vader's ship, but if you notice it's too big to be Vader's fighter. And in another shot of the same ship seen from above it shows that it has the twin pods of the TIE Bomber.

 

This is all wierd. I thought I read somewhere that Tie fihgter pilots weren't expected to make it back so the tie fighter dosen't have landing gear. The again, how does vader land his tie to be alive in ESB?

 

This is all wierd. I thought I read somewhere that Tie fihgter pilots weren't expected to make it back so the tie fighter dosen't have landing gear.

Nope, they don't have landing gear. Only the Airfix models of them had landing gear.

The again, how does vader land his tie to be alive in ESB?

After the Battle of Yavin, he probably made for the nearest Imperial base and landed there. Unlike normal TIE Fighters, Vader's TIE had a hyperdrive system built in.

 

I knew vader had lightspeed for his tie, but I had no clue that some of the tie's had landing gears

 

I thought I read somewhere that Tie fihgter pilots weren't expected to make it back so the tie fighter dosen't have landing gear.

I don't know if I believe that. Wouldn't it be awfully expensive to produce TIE fighters and train all those pilots if they were all expected to die on their first mission? It doesn't make for much of a recruiting pitch, either.

 

but I had no clue that some of the tie's had landing gears

They don't.

 

I was playing a PC game that came with Darkforces 2, Jedi Knight and on one of the stages, a TIE fighter is attached to a tower. Sort of like a space shuttle thing. Not sure if this was just a throw in, but how do the pilots get into the cockpits? A tower would help, any thoughts?

 

Of course the Imperial Navy wanted their pilots to return, just because they don't have shields doesn't mean that the Empire wanted them to die. Extremely wasteful, extremely short-sighted and stupid. True, many of them don't survive their first mission, but many did.

 

In the time since I last posted here, I've discovered that the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game shows TIE fighters suspended from a rack. Question answered.

 

I have a model from at least 10 years ago, of a TIE Interceptor. It came with "legs" that were supposed to be landing gears coming from the struts from the main cockpit to the wing. They were as detailed as the main model, but as big as half the ship horizotally

I did not like it, I glued them in and ripped them off (so the holes were covered), and noticed that it balances much better on its wings

 

I reckon tie fighters have legs like imperial walkers that come out of the middle of the ship. For my money, that is how them tie fighters land.

 

outrider462004 I believe that Vaders TIE probably diddent have landing gear. believe he probably went ot the nearest Star DEstroyer, and landed in it, in another rack. chjances are that there are also planets with hangers for TIE fighters as well. i can't believe old Palpatine didn't have his most effeicent TIE fighter pilotys furthest away, he would keep them on Coruscant with him in case of a Rebel attack.