This is where they used the wrong model.That’s Red 5 (five stripes, gap in nose side stripe, two guns with barber pole stripes) but the scene is Reds 1, 2 and 3 making their attack run.
Slightly earlier, this is Red 2, foreground, with 1 and 3, starting to enter the trench. Red 2 has two stripes on wing, no gap in nose side stripe, red forward section on engine nacelle.
After the battle, Luke’s fighter has no gap in the nose stripe, no yellow on the upper nose panels. That’s not Red 5! I’ll give them that one, because they probably only had one full size craft.
No, I am not comic book guy! I was just doing research for building the model kit.
But I never noticed it in Midway. I don’t know my WWII Navy planes as well as i do my bombers and USAAC fighters.
Was General Dodonna even involved in pilot rosters?
Real answer they had more ships than pilots at the time, and he could target womp rats in his crappy backwater flight ship in beggars canyon, so why not see what this kid that brought us the secret plans our whole mission is based on could do, he’s probably just going to die anyway.
Yeah, that puts him in an X-wing, but doesn’t get him leading the attack run. Biggs and Wedge deferring to him because he claimed he could do it just gets muster, but not why Red Leader assigned Luke the lead.
The reason Luke was Red 5, despite never having flown a combat mission (or an X-wing) before, is because the whole movie is a holodeck fantasy. It’s the only thing that makes sense. It explains away all the problems in the movies! Only four Tie Fighters chasing The MF. Storm Troopers that can’t shoot straight. Giant space slugs.
That’s right. The spot was open. The trench run scene at the death star is my favorite seen in Star Wars.
Rebel radio man: Luke, you switched off your targeting computer! What’s wrong?
Luke: Nothing, I’m all right.
**Han Solo **after shooting down a tie fighter from behind, causing another to crash and spinning Vader into space. " You’re all clear, kid, now let’s blow this thing and go home! "
Luke: Uses the force, the torpedo’s go in.
Seconds before the Death Star is about to destroy the moon that houses the rebel base ( BOOM the Death Star explodes )
Han Solo: Great shot kid, that was one in a million!
>> Indeed, I’m not sure how many Jedi could have made the same shot under the same amount of pressure.
