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Threading the Needle was a famous and dangerous starship maneuver that involved flying through the Stone Needle, a ring-shaped rock outcropping in Beggar's Canyon.[1] The gap in the Stone Needle was exactly wide enough to be cleared by a skyhoppers wings and thus left no room for pilot error.[2] Shortly after Biggs Darklighter returned to Tatooine for the last time, Laze "Fixer" Loneozner challenged Luke Skywalker to a starship race, prompting Skywalker to 'thread' the needle while flying his T-16 skyhopper, nearly killed himself on a reckless burnout run.[3] which burned the skyhopper's instrumentation[4] and damaged its central airfoil, leaving it inoperable. Lacking a real T-16 to fly and grounded for the rest of the season by his Uncle Owen Lars, Skywalker turned to playing with his model T-16.[1]
Sources
- Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 21 Starship Fact File: Incom T-16 Skyhopper (First mentioned)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection: Biggs Darklighter Weapons & Uniforms: Growing up on Tatooine
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 21 Starship Fact File: Incom T-16 Skyhopper
- ↑ Star Wars Helmet Collection: Biggs Darklighter Weapons & Uniforms: Growing up on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars 100 Objects
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T-16 Skyhopper in the Databank (backup link)