Remember that scene in Independence Day where all the F/A-18s attack the mother ships to no avail & then all the enemy fighters come pouring out? One day I'm gonna recreated that scene WWII style in an AH offline mission. Using all the editors as separate tools for the same project, you can really do some pretty funky stuff, including what I've just described. It's just that nobody has pushed it that far...yet. 
Croduh made a really sweet Star Wars terrain many many versions ago. That was really cool stuff. 
You could make it more like Aces High by having a cloud of 262s attack a bunch of I-16s
