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Air Force August 1st Aerobatic Team Flies Over the Great Wall to Commemorate the 77th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Air Force

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空军八一飞行表演队飞越长城献礼人民空军成立77周年

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  1. Published6 November 2026, by Xinhua News Agency
  2. Collected2026-11-07 17:52:35 UTC, run 198
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Six J-10 aerobatic aircraft of the Air Force August 1st Aerobatic Team conducted a low-altitude, close-formation flyby over the Huangyaguan Great Wall in Tianjin on November 6, framed as a tribute to the People's Air Force's 77th founding anniversary. The event fits a pattern of high-visibility landmark flights the team has used for international and domestic messaging — the article notes the Egypt pyramids flyover in 2024 as the direct precedent — with team commander Li Bin explicitly framing the series as projecting the image of a 'strategic air force that is open and confident.' This is ceremonial public affairs content; its value is as a record of how the PLAAF packages aerobatic performance as national prestige, not as evidence of a training or capability development.

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新华社天津11月6日电（高玉娇、肖航）11月6日上午，空军八一飞行表演队6架歼-10表演机，以密集编队低空山谷飞行的方式，飞越天津黄崖关长城，献礼人民空军成立77周年。 燕山叠翠，雄关巍峨。天津黄崖关长城上空，空军八一飞行表演队6架歼-10表演机穿云而来。六机编队以极限间距保持密集队形，进行低空通场飞行。表演机拉出的红、黄、蓝三色彩烟漫卷长空。 “低空飞行时气流扰动大、观察余量小。6架表演机整齐划一的密集编队姿态，直观展现出空军八一飞行表演队的过硬素养，也折射出人民空军不断提升的训练水平。”军事专家张学峰说。 空军八一飞行表演队践行“国家大礼、蓝天仪仗”的使命任务，组建64年来，始终坚持所有特技动作根植实战标准，先后装备歼-5、歼-6、歼教-5、歼-7EB、歼-7GB、歼-10、歼-10C表演机，为180多个国家和地区的800多个代表团进行了800余次飞行表演。 据了解，这是空军八一飞行表演队2024年飞越埃及金字塔后，又一次飞越世界地标性建筑。 “金字塔是人类古老文明的见证，长城是中华民族的精神图腾。飞越这些世界地标性建筑，展示的是战略空军开放自信的形象。”空军八一飞行表演队队长李斌表示，“一流的空军要有一流的表演队。随着人民空军现代化建设持续推进，表演队的航迹将向更远的地方延伸。”

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DeskChina Desk
Publishing institutionXinhua News Agency
Source outletXinhua Military (新华军事) (xinhua_mil)
Source languagezh-Hans — an attribute of the source, not of this record
Source-stated publication date2026-11-06
Original URLhttps://www.news.cn/milpro/20261106/2f02d4b01156441a89193ed7bbe87947/c.html
Collected at2026-11-07 17:52:35 — collection metadata, not a publication time
Content fingerprint1a77b75f281643623720af70d9a703f0262901c77bde1d234cf5a6eeb8778f4f — taken when the record was captured, over the stored original title and text
Collection run198
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Source text. Xinhua News Agency. "空军八一飞行表演队飞越长城献礼人民空军成立77周年." Xinhua Military (新华军事), 2026-11-06. https://www.news.cn/milpro/20261106/2f02d4b01156441a89193ed7bbe87947/c.html.

As held. Indo-Pacific Record, Research Atlas corpus, Record 6193, Snapshot — 2026-11-07 (1,773 records).

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