Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
We have to start sometime. What's the point of waiting?” That idea, often heard in the Chinese aero-engine industry, probably best sums up the fatalistic attitude as the country's aviation propulsion sector, experienced mainly in making foreign machinery, sets out to take on leading Western and Russian manufacturers.
TIANJIN, China — China’s Avic Engine is working on two new turboshaft powerplants, one of which is evidently intended for a very big rotorcraft that China is negotiating to build with Russia, while the other may be aimed at a domestic regional airliner.
BEIJING – South Korea will receive four Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial systems in 2015 and 2016 under an order that is in the final stages of negotiation. The U.S. State Department is likely to advise Congress within a few weeks of the proposed sale, which also will include the ground infrastructure for the surveillance aircraft. A U.S. official says that the contract will be worth about $850 million. Two of the aircraft will be delivered in 2015 and the other two in 2016.
