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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
I was reading something, and found this question in an article. Maybe we can answer this question here!  I can't give a good idea as to why, nor could I when I was 10 years old either. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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No scientific explanation but an artistic one.
Lucas wanted to capture WW2 aerial dogfighting in Star Wars.
Just look at the movements of the x-wing fighters during the attack on the death star, the dives, the incoming flack, the tie fighters vs the x-wings its all reminescent of ww2 aerial dogfighting and bombing, think zeros against corsairs.
In private showings of early edits of the film he actually used real ww2 footage to convey the kind of combat in space he was aspiring to depict in the final film.
You shoud read the book : The making of Star Wars by J.W Rinzler.
It discusses the whole Star Wars project from the early seventies up until the release in 1977.