Video reports on aviation news

China’s homegrown Comac C919 passenger jet successfully completed its first test flight on 5th May in Shanghai, paving the way to compete in the global aviation market with aircraft manufacturing giants, Boeing and Airbus. Watch the first images.
 

First electric, zero emission air taxis moved a step closer as Lilium Aviation revealed it has successfully carried out flight tests on a new VTOL aircraft prototype over the skies of Germany. Watch the video.
 

A Porsche Cayenne 4 x 4 driven by a British driver has become the world’s most successful tow car. It set a new world record as it tugged an Air France Airbus A380, weighing 285 tonnes, over a distance of 138ft (42 m) at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
 

As Boeing continues to downsize, further redundancies may affect non-union staff, after management issued 429 lay off notices to engineering and mechanical union staff in a second phase of involuntary redundancies.
 

The world’s biggest plane, the Stratolaunch, may be flying by the end of the year. The giant twin-fuselage aircraft will act as a low cost air launch platform, but can also carry cargo with a range of 1,300 miles
 

Tom Cruise has been discovering the sensations of zero gravity aboard a Novespace Airbus A310 ZERO-G for his latest movie. Watch the video to find out what went on behind the scenes of The Mummy, due out this summer.
 

Boeing’s 787-10, the largest of its Dreamliners, successfully completed its first test flight on Friday, 31st March. The long-haul jet, which can carry 330 passengers over 6,400 miles (11,900 km), will now undergo a test programme before deliveries begin next year.
 

A Boeing 737 caught fire when it violently veered off the runway just after landing on 28th March at Jauja airport in Peru. Over 140 passengers and crew were evacuated safely.
 

Scientists have come up with a solution to the growing need to expand airport capacity while reducing the impact on the environment – a circular, never-ending runway.
 

French Air Force jets made a symbolic flyover of the Statue of Libery to mark the centenary of the US joining WWI, in the first stop on a six-week North American tour.
 

An Airbus Helicopter lands with its main rotor blocked at a heliport in Hong Kong. Is it a new machine? No, it’s an optical illusion spinning us a surreal scene. We'll explain.
 

Latecoere explains its new electric aircraft doors, designed to improve safety and technical problems associated with operating current mechanical doors.
 

Honeywell, US aircraft engine manufacturer, has a surprising test aircraft with a strange outgrowth on the right-hand side of its forward fuselage. So what is it?
 

Watch this video to relive the thrilling race between a Formula 1 racing driver and a RAAF fighter jet pilot ahead of the Australian Grand Prix in 2014.