Hey I like that, you'd never know you were spinning in a circle, it looks like they are flying straight.

Yeah, if I were going to expand on the idea, I'd have to upgrade the "special effects" a little. This was just dorking around at work and all I had was some flimsy notebook paper. Of course, if I made a longer short, I'd still keep my hand in every shot.

This reminds me of a technique I used to do to make lasers in my old super 8 films. I had a big pane of glass that I would put between my camera and the set (which might have a creature holding a ray gun) and next to the camera I'd have a piece of black poster board with a slice cut out of it; the slit was covered with colored tissue paper. I'd backlight the posterboard and angle it so when I looked through the viewfinder its reflection in the glass would line up with the ray gun on the set. I'd cover the slit with another piece of black paper and gradually expose the laser beam over a few frames. The final blast was another cut out (same kind of pointy burst I used on the tie fighter) plus I'd breath on the lens to fog it a little and make it glow. (all that would be hard to do while spinning around in my office chair.)