In Blender - How to Make Star Wars dog fights in an atmosphere

These are two very good videos that will get you off to the races, if you want to make Star Wars type dog fights.   (You could replace this with whatever ships you have though.) FYI any clouds will make your renders super slow.  Adding vfx pre rendered will help with this, but you have to be careful for simple camera moves if you do that.

This one Has The use of a paid add on from blender market, called clouds.  Good choice of camera placement. Adding a bendy effect on the wings of the x wings i think might add that touch of realism, Haven't seen anyone do that yet.  

Good ideas on how to use particle system for the clouds, and the explosion of the tie fighter.