Remember blue thunder? Remember the scene where the helicopter rises up from the rear of the building? Now picture the same scene with the assault raptor, rising up to do some damage to the cylons lol!
Yeah!
Or the title screen of the 1984 laserdisc video game, Cobra Command:
Cobra Command Ingame video footage (Part 1 of 3) - YouTube
Neat project...I didn't even know the model had evolved over the series.