It looks like a Max Steel toy…
♫ We’ll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young ♫
The method of testing this “stormproof” one-off vehicle is a little more interesting to me than the vehicle itself.
It looked like a flying shopping cart taking off from a Walmart parking lot.
Russian airlines won’t be able to fly the C919 then.
I would not put it past China to make an attempt at bypassing tech transfer law. They’re already sharing a pillow — if not the bed — with Russia.
AFAIK operating a modern aircraft like the C919 would be pretty much impossible without ongoing support from the manufacturers of the various subsystems. Russian airlines are fudging it right now thanks to previous experience and spare parts from dubious sources, but that would be impossible for a new, unfamiliar aircraft.
I’m pretty sure the pics are all AI-generated (maybe with the people shooped in). The proportions seem a little off. And half of them mangle the VW logo into something else. To the point that one of them is the Citroën logo. Another has some sort of VW logo and sort of half a Mazda logo.
Those scooters do not exist (yet).