When I used to do the kill skimmer missions, I sat my Corvette close to the ground waiting for them to spawn. A mission-spawned NPC eagle or something like that would turn up and tell me that he was going to boil me up. They're programmed to start their attack from behind and below, so he tried to boost into that position, but went straight into the ground and lost half his shields. He then gave another message, like "prepare to die" and promptly dived into the ground again, knocking out the rest of his shields and half his hull. Finally another message about my impending doom, then into the ground again and blew up. I used to laugh so much, I could hardly breathe.