A New York Times reviewer has noted that “no big-budget hour of television is complete nowadays, it seems, without an establishing aerial shot of a nighttime skyline...[but] ‘Aerial America ...

In an aerial shot, the camera is mounted to a flying vehicle and flown over the action or location. Aerial shots are often used at the start of a film to establish setting and create a sense of mood.

The clip was used as a model for the memorable shot of Rebel craft diving to attack ... easy to build quickly and in great numbers. A character in one Star Wars spin-off novel notes the basic ...