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Old 06-17-2016, 07:00 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
I can think of two reasons.

1. Authorial laziness.

2. Deliberately modelling of an earlier form of transportation to better fit the average reader's (not you Paul) understanding. (They know how ship and airplanes work. . .)
In Star Wars, it was 2. The starfighter battles were copied from movies of WW II aerial dogfights.
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