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  • Red Falcon pilots march forward
  • The Red Falcon team begins their flight routine
  • Red Falcon planes deploy colorful smoke ribbons while changing formation
  • The Red Falcon team makes a flying eagle
  • The Red Falcon team pulls up after a steep dive
  • The Sky Wing's pilots are ready for take-off
  • The Sky Wing team traces beautiful lines through the sky
  • Multicolored smoke trails from behind Sky Wing planes
  • Two Sky Wing pilots disengage from a tight formation
  • Sky Wing performs followed by traces of smoke
  • Sky Wing planes trace hazy smoke in formation
  • The Sky Wing team traces lines in the air
  • Two planes of the Sky Wing team perform a highly demanding scissors maneuver
  • A close encounter between two planes of the Sky Wing team
  • A Sky Wing plane skillfully flies at an extremely low altitude
  • The Sky Wing team shows a four-plane performance
  • Sky Wing performs a four-plane overhead maneuver
  • Sky Wing pilots circle in a low-altitude formation
  • Sky Wing pilots circle in a low-altitude formation
  • Planes of the Bayi team in arrow formation
  • Dancing ribbons from the Bayi team
  • The Bayi team flies in extremely close formation
  • Two Bayi pilots perform an extremely close proximity fly-by
  • A Bayi plane flies at low altitude
On September 1, two new aerobatic demonstration teams, the Sky Wing and the Red Falcon, debuted at an airshow held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.

The show was staged at a ceremony held by the Aviation University of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force. Also performing at the show was the 50-year-old Bayi aerobatic demonstration team.

The teams demonstrated their superlative flying skills, which showcase the quality of the air force's rigorous pilot training.
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