Li Kuiyuan, leader of the "Thunder" aerobatics team, pilots a Z-10 helicopter to present a stunt show at a base in Liaocheng, East China’s Shandong province, July 28, 2015. The "Thunder" aerobatics team is the first helicopter aerobatics team of army aviation in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). Li has a safe flight record of 7,000 hours, and he is also the first in the country to turn armed helicopter somersaults. The team will stage air shows at the 3rd China (Tianjin) International Helicopter Exposition scheduled in September. (Photo: China News Service/Tong Yu) |