"Landing strip strait ahead"

Eh? Since when have the ships needed a runway to land and take off? Was what Anakin landed on not supposed to be used for a landing strip or do some ships require one to take off and land etc?

 

well we don't really know if all races use ships that have a VTOL system or if some do use runways.

I just accepted that some ships would use a runway because that's how those species choose to make them and corruscant being a hub for all races was equiped to handle that.

 

Was what Anakin landed on not supposed to be used for a landing strip or do some ships require one to take off and land etc?

Ships with their back half missing definately need a landing strip. Maybe that "landing strip" was really a podracer drag strip.

 

Well you know that huge staging area on Coruscant you saw at the end of AOTC? Maybe there was just another empty one of those lying around that they decided to try a crash-landing on.

 

Maybe most Capital ships need a landing strip while smaller ones dont. I dont think we ever saw a capital ship like a star destroyer or another ship of similar size land, did we?

 

Right. Capital ships like the Star Destroyers need landing strips. Nubian ships, on the other hand, are small enough to not warrant one. Landing bays or landing pads are more optimal.

 

Actually, there is a star destroyer/jedi cruiser plopped right down behind the wookie tree in ROTS. No landing strip required.

 

That's because those ships had legs.

 

A opposed to wheels?
If they can land using legs then no runway would be necessary in the first place.

 

There was room on Kashyyyk to land it on the ground. On Courscant you have an entirely different enviroment. One filled with skyscrapers, landing pads and docking bays. All unsuitable for a huge ass ship. Star Destroyers need a strip to land, not for just one, but several. When Obi-wan goes to leave for Utapau, his Star Destroyer and the others are at a landing strip. Plus there was the Clone Parade at the end of AOTC and seen again at the end of Chapter 1 of the micro series. Both are landing strips. On Geonosis, there was a landing area where all the huge capital ships were able to land safely.

 

How about the staging area at the end of AOTC? The star destroyers were stacked all over the place. I really don't think star destroyers use landing strips. There may be other large ships that do, but not star destroyers. Frankly, no ship we've ever seen in Star Wars uses anything but vertical take-off and landing, unless I am mistaken.

George added it because it worked in the plot. No big deal.

 

Come to think of it, isn't the surface of Coruscant kinda an unsuitable place to operate massive space cruisers from?

 

In the novel, isn't the whole landing strip idea explained as it's an area away from heavily populated areas where the controlled crash will hurt the fewest people.

 

I think the mode of landing varies from ship to ship, and technology level of the manufactuers. Perhaps vertical takeoffs and landings have becomed the pre dominant way, but runway style landings and takeoffs are still a strong enough force to have landing strips build, plus the ship was heavily damaged maybe it it's landing equioment was working, so to avoid crashing head first into coruscanti pavement, they'ed locate a landing strip.

 

I kind of imagined it as an abandoned landing strip from a long ago era when they used to need them. Hence no worries about demolishing the control tower and anything in the area, since it was abandoned.

 

It may be that landing strips are emergency backup systems in the GFFA, in case the vertical systems fail.

When the Tantive IV arrives in Naboo at the end of ROTS, there are landing strips there too.

 

I think vooodooo is right in that a landing strip would be needed if the repulsorlift failed.

Also, just because it's called a landing "strip" does not mean it's used like an airliner runway.

 

Yes I suppose, but in the Galactic Capital you would think that they wouldn't leave huge sections of real estate abandoned like that for long.....

Considering that most aerial vehicles in the GFFA don't even have wings, but rely solely upon repulsors, I'm sure that any vehicle that loses repulsorlift functionality would never make it to that landing strip for a crash landing =P

 

some ships just need to settle down on a strip. they can't all just levitate like helicopters.

 

A Star Desroyer probably cant lift up vertically, directly. It has to move forward as well, from power supplied by the engines. A ship that big needs quite a big strip of open land to move forward in, else it would crash into a skyscraper.

Im guessing the same for landing.

 

If Anakin Skywalker wants to claim the sidewalk as a landing strip I'm not gonna argue with him....

 

I don't have the DVD handy, but I believe we see the republic cruisers lifting off vertically from the surface of Coruscant at the end of AOTC. I would imagine star destroyers utilize the same procedure.

 

I think "Landing Strip" is a strip club and Obi-Wan was suggesting they stop by after the crash. he didn't know Anakin was married.

 

It does seem that the Star Destroyer taking Obi-Wan and his army to Utapau takes off by moving forward and up at the same time


Remember, the Acclamator class from the end of AOTC is quite a bit smaller when compared to the ships we see in ROTS


My guess however is that the airstrip is there for a military staging area... Thus making it not really an landing strip at all, but when you're landing a gigantic ship thats falling apart it's not important to call things by their proper names