Where did the inspiration for the TIE fighters in Star Wars come from? Well, we surely can’t rule out that George Lucas read this Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie paper from 1953 and was particularly struck by the following figure…
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Not the TIE advanced, I see: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1