I have always been fond of the Snow Speeder from Empire Strikes Back.

The Tie Fighter debuted 46 years ago so well over 30 years!

My favorite will always be the Y-Wing. I loved it from the first time I seen it.

Actually the sound of the TIE fighters flying by is from the pilots screaming, those seats really crush your balls.

The B-Wing is my favourite. Just looks so damn cool.

I loved th B-wing since the first time i see it on Return of the Jedi on 1983.

Favorite ship is a TIE Interceptor, preferably with a shield generator.

Rebel alliance Y-wing, I've never known why. I just like it. Stats, specs, speed be damned that stripped down look just works for me.

Luthen Rael's "Fondor" was by far the coolest ship in the SW universe

I can't give one favorite, but here's a top 3 1:T-65 X-Wing because it is a classic 2: Din Jarin's Modified N1 Starfighter, it's like a neat concept of Muscle Car meets Star Wars and would be cool to see more 3: the Alliance Troop Transport. Playing OG Battlefront II, it was great being able to have other players get in, flight into whatever capital ship under fire and just having a team to infiltrate.

My favorite, believe that would be the A-wing. It has the reputation of being fast as greased lightning, extremely maneuverable, enable to pack a punch. Also known to be difficult to fly....

My biggest critique of the TIE fighter is visibility. The pilot cannot see left, right, or behind.

Tie fighter was my favorite looks so fast and fun to drive

Actually you don't lose heat very much in space because there is nothing to conduct it away from you; it has to radiate. A big problem of operating in space is heat buildup, the usual answer is radiator fins that water is run through to cool.

Padme's ship struck me with awe when I saw it in theaters. It'll always be one of my favorites

A-wing became my instant favourite when I first saw it in RoJ.

My favorite ship is the Outrider! SOTE was the first game I ever purchased back in 1997. Great times!

TIE Fighter has the same vulnerability is the Kilrathi medium fight, the Dralthi. As in the big wings block the port and starboard visibility. Though the Dralthi has the advantage of shields, heavy weapons, faster than light drive, and armor plate. Though I myself would prefer a Rylos Gunstar, or a Rapier from Wingcommander.

Y-wing is the best overall fighter. Fast, tough, and well armed.

And the biggest thing that stuck in my mind when I saw star wars in 1977 was the tie fighter, so many drawings and cardboard models followed.....

Well to be fair the tie fighter is mainly used for space battles which has basically no air resistance so aerodynamic don’t really matter and the tie interceptor is mainly used for in atmosphere travel so it makes sense it’s more areodynamic

Tie interceptor

The U-Wing is one my favorites, so is the Tie Striker.

I really like the design of TIE bomber and TIE shuttle

My favorite is the ETA 2 Actis star fighter featured in the opening moments of episode 3.

The Thai Fighter goes back way before Star Wars 1977, in fact was very popular in Bangkok.

The Y-wing is my favorite.

To be fair, the pilots of the TIE fighters at the Death Star were Darth Vader's personal squadron, the best trained in the Empire. Vader couldn't launch TIE fighters from the Death Star without Tarkin's permission, but he could send his personal squadron out. "Stationed aboard the first Death Star during the Battle of Yavin, Black Squadron was the TIE unit which Vader led into battle against the attacking Rebel snubfighters-the only TIE unit to deploy against the Rebels during the battle. As Grand Moff Tarkin and most of the rest of the Death Star's chain of command refused to take the threat the Rebellion posed seriously, only the squadron that Vader personally commanded launched-fortunately for the Alliance, as the giant station carried several thousand TIEs that would have easily overwhelmed the few dozen snubfighters the Rebels managed to throw against it. An element of six TIEs attacked the X-wings providing top cover, while Vader himself and two wing guards engaged the ships making the trench run. It is not often appreciated these TIE pilots were significantly outnumbered during the battle, but the members of Black Squadron were among the finest the Empire had to offer: they fought hard, and were responsible for many of the Alliance casualties." Wookiepedia Black Squadron entry

I love the Y-Wing.

Has anyone ever commented on the rather large lateral blind spots of the TIE fighter?

I like to think of the old DOS xwing game where the xwing could be fast and maneuverable if you shifted power from shields - which the tie fighter had none. Nonetheless the tie fighter could always turn on a dime in that game so your maneuverability argument holds up - but firepower from the xwing overpowered maneuverability in a dogfight so you could use shields and quad fire to get the upper hand. Good video thank you!

Slave 1 is my favorite, but I love so many.

It should be noted, that the TIE Fighter being a better dogfighter than the X-Wing is another WW2 parallel (which Lucas loved). In WW2, the A6M Zero was a better dogfighter than the Wildcat or Hellcat, in terms of speed and turning ability. However, the Cats were both more rugged, had better G Tolerance, and better dive performance. On the pilot side of things, Cat pilots would rotate, while Zero pilots stayed until they were killed or rendered incapable of flying. This played a huge role in WW2 as it meant that as the war went on, even the newest US Navy pilot was actually as good, if not better than even some of the most experienced Japanese pilots that were still alive simply because they were trained by someone who had fought against those very aircraft, and may have even himself been trained by someone who fought them. As the GCW progressed, Rebel Pilots in X-Wings were good, but Imperial Pilots were better at first. But before long, the skill gap would narrow, and thanks to the kind of training TIE pilots went through, losses began to be felt. Meanwhile, the X-Wing pilots could be pulled from anywhere you could find a T-16 Skyhopper, and the more experienced pilots imparted their knowledge to the new recruits. Couple this with the fact that TIE pilots were told to put the mission first and not their comrades, and were forced to compete hard for positions, meant that they were less likely to abandon a kill to save a fellow pilot (IE, get off of the tail of one bad guy to go help a friend). Meanwhile Rebel pilots would do exactly that. So, to paraphrase Rooster: It's not the plane, it's the pilot.

The X-wing has an appealing, venomous shape, and would be nearly everybody’s first choice. It has plenty if punch, has shields, and a hyperdrive unit. It can also carry your own Astromech droid, who usually winds up to be your best friend. On the other hand, longevity and durability is a better option, especially when the vessel is armed to the teeth, is faster than everything else, has unparalleled maneuverability, and has enough room to stretch your legs and get some well deserved shut eye. As much as I would love a fighter such as an X-wing, I would much prefer a highly modified YT1300, specifically the Millennium Falcon!

My fav was always the Y Wing. But really digging the madalorian ships, especially Bo Kataans

Playing the original TIE Fighter game turned me to the Dark Side. Fave ship is the TIE Advanced from that game. The Defender is OP and hard to fly.

At the end of the Ejector seat section, with the TIE pilot being ejected from his ship when hit by an asteroid, I read in an article (I can't remember from where) several years ago that it IS the pilot and not debris. The SFX artists put in a cell animated pilot flying away from the explosion. Chances are most people never saw it unless they knew to look for it.

Naboo starfighter is my fav

Johnston is incorrect;the Jericho Trumpet on the Ju-87 was a siren powered by a small propellor on the wheel spat driving a siren. The siren would disengage from the propellor when the dive brakes retracted, and the pilot had an override to disengage the clutch completely. However, there were occasional failures of the clutch to disengage, and the pilot would have to fly back to base with the siren wailing.

The VT-49 Decimator, my GM allowed us to go to Raxus Prime and I rolled a broken down Decimator. Was able to get it flying and I used it for smuggling.

I quite liked the Imperial shuttle, myself. Flown casually, of course, but not too casually.

The Skipray Blastboat is my favorite ship.

The Emperor's Shuttle is pretty slick

my husband still loves to call the SR-71 the night raven😂

Dash Rendar's 'Outrider' is my favorite ship, besides The Falcon!

Imperial Shuttle Tydirium is my 2nd favourite Star Wars ship after the Millennium Falcon .

Tie Silencer is my fave but I also like the Nightbuzzard.

Tie Interceptor is my fav design

I love it's sound

My favorite is the Delta-7B Aethersprite-class starfighter.

A WING!!! dude seriously if such a thing i d go for a HELLA joy ride lol

Can't believe no one said the Slave 1.. But yeah, that will always be the top of my list.

When I played Star Wars galaxies jump to lightspeed my favourite was the M22-T "Krayt" Gunship

The B-Wing was my favorite. I wish it got more combat time

I think inb older cannon Solo was at one point considered an ex-tie pilot. they changed that when his movie came out but you can find it in older souce books

The tie defender was mine. it had the same sjhields that is fouing on a victory start destroyer. they were also stupid fast and manuverable. that makes it easily my fav ship in star wars

Tie fighters are a simple design but it's an effective one a classic design.

The Imperial Axe is my fav'. TIE AX1.

My 3 favorites are the b-wing, the k-wing and the Jumpmaster 5000

I've been saying the better-dogfighter thing for years. It's faster and more maneuverable. Realistically it should beat X-Wings one-to-one. Better tactics and armor can trump Ties in larger furballs and skill can become an issue in a war of attrition, but people give far too much credit to the X-Wing's supposedly better durability. As for favorite ships, if we're talking types I'd go with the Y-Wing, though classic or Clone Wars version may depend on my mood that day. I think that started when I was young and misunderstood it to be a commander's fighter (probably thanks to some of the editing around Gold Leader and Red Leader chatting during Yavin). Being my preferred fighter in Rogue Squadron helped too. But if we're talking individual ships, I'd pick the Havoc from Star Wars Starfighter and Jedi Starfighter.

TIE Defender.

Is there a version of a space Vespa?

My favorite ships are the TIE Defender and the TIE v1 advanced. Go Empire!

you wanted to say: over 40 years ago, and elephant not being freightening? dude...

Just a guess, but I would tend to think that those X-wings that blew up so easily had fried or otherwise non-functional shield generators. Contrast that to the TIE which doesn't have shields in the first place: their combat doctrine is basically "Don't Get Caught".

The Fury-class Imperial Interceptor

My favorite ship is the lambda-class shuttle

The A wing is my favorite star fighter

Favorite is the A-wing

Tie Fighter is just more catchy than Rear Differential Fighter.

i like that new ship that cx2 from the bad batch uses.

I like the X wing the most although he just shat on in at the end. 😂

Star Wars was released on May 5th, 1977. That's 47 years, 1 month, and 1 day ago as of the posting of this comment.

I don't know that's it's my favorite ship, but I love the Supremacy.

My favorite ship is the B-Wing fighter. I didn’t understand how much power and weapons that she has

the design goal of the TIE fighter is a quick kill. the design goal of the X-wing is to fly the whole mission. of course, the TIE will have better maneuverability. offsetting the maneuverability of the "quick kill" design has been a trope of many star wars stories.

The Ghost is my favorite.

I don’t know why but I’ve always liked the Z95.

Favourite ship is easy... the Liberty class Mon Calamari Cruiser... specifically the Liberty herself until she was destroyed first by the 2nd Death Star

You might be right that TIE is a better dogfighter than an X-wing... and you exhausted all of its advantages. The X-wing is a support fighter (or you can call it fighter bomber as well), so its top speed is higher than the TIE's, it has deflector shield and it has proton torpedoes, so it is able to hunt down the TIE when the latter is still out of its own firing range; also, if Y-wings are on a bombing mission, the X-wings can support them with their own torpedoes... The TIEs also should be carried to the battle as they don't have a hyperdrive - on the other side, the rebel ship can go to the place of action, fight and then return home without the support of any other capital spacecraft.

Tie Interceptor or Hoth rebel Snow Speeder for sure

#4... You failed to mention the SR-71 Blackbird was unarmed. It would NEED to run away.

I like the Z-95 Headhunter or the assault gunboat

I am currently really digging the Marauder as a ship. Too bad it got blown up.

My other car is an X Wing starfighter these are my favorite.

I really like these videos, but only being what you would call a "casual" Star Wars fan, I would like it if you put the name of the film that each video clip comes from in the corner of the screen.

That fury class sith ship. That thing is basically the baby of the millennium falcon and a tie fighter. 😂😂😂

"Proving that many an academic is a closeted nerd." Many? Closeted? Have you met us?

Favorite: The _Ebon Hawk_

My favorite ship is actually the Mandalorian Gauntlet Fighter/Transport.

My favorite ship is the Bes'uliik class beskar starfighter.

My favourite Star Wars ship has always been Darth Vader's TIE fighter from the original movie.

Why does no acknowledge (or possibly be aware) that the two headed dragon in the *_1962_* movie _The Magic Sword_ very much has the TIE fighter sound within its roar.

Tie Defender and the Lancer Frigate

"Super dive-bomber" being obsolete in 1942. Remember the super fighter Aircobra? Or super torpedo-bomber Swordfish?

My favourite is and always will be the b-wing

My favourite ship in Star Waes is the NCC-1701-D

The X-Wing was tied to the TIE Fighter in speed. Disney changed that.

Favorite ship, j type xl7 Nubian from the phantom menace

Ladyluck is my favorite