An aerial camera for capturing images along two or more curved scan paths, the aerial camera comprising a scanning camera associated with each scan path, each scanning camera comprising an image sensor, a lens, a scanning mirror, and a drive coupled to the scanning mirror; wherein the drive is operative to rotate the scanning mirror about a spin axis according to a spin angle, the spin axis is tilted relative to the camera optical axis, the scanning mirror is tilted relative to both the camera optical axis and the spin axis and is positioned to reflect an imaging beam into the lens, the lens is positioned to focus the imaging beam onto the image sensor, and the image sensor is operative to capture each image along the scan path by sampling the imaging beam at a corresponding spin angle.