Heavenly Wings and Red Eagles, those are the names of China's two new aerobatic teams. They will make their debut performance on September 1st.

Red Eagles aerobatic teams

China is the second nation to have 3 aerobatic squads after Russia. The 16 members of the Heavenly Wings are all veteran pilots from the PLA Air Force. They will fly China's home-developed CJ-6 aircraft.

To this day, the plane is still China's top export among all military planes. The Red Eagles is composed of 18 pilots, 8 of whom participated in the military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 2009.

They will fly K-8, China's new generation of trainer jets.

The primary purpose of these two new teams is to facilitate exchanges between foreign air forces and China.