1/4/2024 0 Comments Wedge rebel pilot![]() ![]() Sandsurfing involved a "surfer" wearing repulsor disks on their feet while being dragged behind a sand skiff. ĭarklighter and Skywalker also engaged in another semidangerous sport, "invented" by Fixer. ![]() Skywalker, of course, was soon forced to match the feat. During one run through the canyon, Darklighter "threaded" his way through a small opening in a sixty-meter spindle of rock known as the Stone Needle, giving him near-legendary status among the Anchorhead residents. ![]() Skywalker was a better shot in his T-16, but Darklighter was the better pilot in his newer model. They constantly pushed one another to the limit, becoming expert pilots. Together, they raced landspeeders through the streets of Anchorhead and T-16 skyhoppers through Beggar's Canyon in the Jundland Wastes "tagging" womp rats. The strong bond between Darklighter and Skywalker was fueled by an intense undercurrent of competition that kept their lives charged. ĭarklighter and Skywalker attacked by dewbacks Together, along with their friends Janek "Tank" Sunber, jealous Laze "Fixer" Loneozner, Camie Loneozner, and tagalongs "Deak" and Windy Starkiller, they would often socialize at Tosche Station, a power distribution center just outside Anchorhead. A strong friendship quickly developed between the two. As a teenager, Darklighter spent much of his time in the town of Anchorhead, where he met young Luke Skywalker. The water he did not use to irrigate his own crops he sold at high prices. The elder Darklighter owned dozens of moisture farms and bought water from other farmers at cut-rate prices. Utilizing a digital scan of an original X-wing helmet in the Lucasfilm archive and an actual APH-6B helmet, castings of an original visor and chin cup, eFX’s engineers, model-makers and artists painstakingly constructed the master patterns to produce this prop replica." You only think this planet's boring because you've never been anywhere else." ―Biggs, to Luke Skywalker ĭarklighter was born on Tatooine to the local agricultural magnate Huff Darklighter and his wife. The eFX X-wing pilot helmet is a faithful recreation of the iconic helmet that Wedge Antilles wore in Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back of the exciting battles of the Star Wars saga. This is the same headset that Luke and Han wore when fighting the TIE Fighters in their escape from the Death Star.As with the microphone for Luke’s X-wing pilot helmet, the tip of the microphone was lost in the interim between ANH and ESB. The microphone is from a Racal Minilite headset. ![]() Upon assembly, a strip of ABS was added to hide the parting line of the two halves. The helmet was then cast in halves to make the master pattern and the X-wing pilot helmets were then vacuum formed from these patterns. A ridge was also added over the top from front to back. This helmet included the dual visor cover. The original helmet was made from an APH-6B Vietnam era flight helmet used by the US Navy, circa 1969. And then in the final Battle of Endor in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, he was promoted to Red Leader and destroyed the second Death Star with Lando Calrissian, who was flying the Millennium Falcon. Wedge was assigned the wing position of Red Two and flew his X-wing starfighter in the Battle of Yavin against the Empire’s mightiest weapon, the Death Star in Episode IV: A New Hope, He was one of the leaders of the Rogue Squadron against the Empire’s AT-AT’s in the Battle on Hoth in Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Wedge Antilles is one of the few pilots of the Rebel Alliance who not only fought, but survived all 3 of the epic battles of the original trilogy of the Star Wars saga. ![]()
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