Week 10 Animation progress

The animation I am truing to achieve consists of motion paths and creating key frames so far, the difficulties I am finding is trying to get the Ship to follow the other ship closely behind but never catch up so far into my 30 second animation. I think I will have to use the techniques learnt today to get the ship to follow the other one on a motion path  in order to achieve this, however I am unsure weather this connection can be broken during the animation, I suspect not. I am going to continue with researching any possible solutions to this. However i have made a break through as I have made the camera follow the xwing and pan round in the first 5 seconds of my scene meaning I have completed a part of the final animation.

This is the view of the camera on the XWing after panning around it