Above the trenches, the first air war continues to escalate. Each side now has more than 3,000 aircraft in service on the Western Front. But by 1918 the Allies have won air superiority, thanks to greater resources.
Like this imposing angle of the underbelly of a star destroyer, or this shot during the Death Star dog-fight that appears to be from a pilot's point of view.
Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky.
The ship-on-ship combat of Star Wars, which has gotta be the most influential space combat fiction out there, was based on WWII dogfighting… like take the attack on the Death Star, based on a British WWII film.
And the pilots that are going up in these air battles are often very, very green and they're going up against American carrier pilots that are some of the best aviators the United States has ever produced.
They are to the world of naval warfare what machines like the Predator and Reaper drones made by General Atomics are to aerial combat, namely redesigned, uncrewed versions of the existing way of doing things.