Supplementary material tells us that the S-foil serves several purposes on a technical level: it helps cool the engines when they’re under pressure in combat situations, it increases stability (don’t question Lucas-physics), and affords a wider coverage of fire for the four wing-mounted laser cannons the ship carries to augment its twin proton torpedo launchers. We first hear it mentioned by Red Leader Garven Dreis in A New Hope. S-foil is the term used for the entire wing assembly of the X-Wing. The Z-95’s style-while an obvious stepping point between the bulkier, hornet-like ARC-170 (and its massive twin engines) we see in the later movies of the prequel trilogy-allows both a retro reference point and a more sleek aspect when the vessel’s servo actuators push the S-foils into their attack position. It’s referenced in the recent James Luceno novel Tarkinas still being very common in the years just prior to the building of the first Death Star, and also features in Jason Fry’s “Last Call at the Zero Angle” from Star Wars Insider 156. It has also featured in a couple of recent canonical stories. McQuarrie’s semi-circular ion engine design features on the Z-95 ‘Headhunter’ that we first saw in Clone Wars episode “Darkness on Umbara” (4×07), and then turned up regularly through the remainder of that series.
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The T-70 design refines McQuarrie’s look further, though, by allowing the wings to interlock when the s-foils are retracted, simultaneously allowing the two engines to form full circles. His concept drawings feature the most significant design change that separates the new T-70 from its iconic predecessor: the semi-circular drive units, as opposed to the T-65’s quartet of circular ion engines. The original Prequel Trilogy X-Wing was conceived and refined by Joe Johnston of ILM, though the design for The Force Awakens appears to be influenced directly, as so much of the recent Disney Star Wars universe appears to be, by the A New Hope concept art created by Ralph McQuarrie. This evolution is a continuation of the process that has seen the X-Wing follow a definite lineage from the Arc-170 and Z-95 machines seen in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars, through the T-65 and on to this T-70 iteration we’ve seen in a fair amount of footage so far this year. Abrams in his first Force for Change campaign video, and featuring in that eye-catching water-skimming sequence in the first teaser trailer-closer inspection makes it easy to see that its distinctive design has evolved as time within the Star Wars universe has gone on. While the familiar silhouette of the new X-Wing has been a key part of the build-up to The Force Awakens-revealed by J.J.
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