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.
BEIJING — The South Korean air force plans to choose next year among the Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle, Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning for its F-X Phase 3 program, subject to funding from parliament.
BOC Aviation will support the Comac C919 airliner as part of an agreement between the manufacturer and the lessor’s owner, Bank of China, aimed partly at getting the aircraft into service with foreign airlines.
Smashed to smithereens, a return to Earth orbit for retirement, or a voyage into deep space—those are the alternative fates that have awaited the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 since its launch last October. Now the decision has been made: Chang'e 2 will go to the second Sun-Earth Lagrangian point this month, laying the groundwork for Martian missions.
