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.
Avic Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (ACAE) appears to be pursuing advanced compressor design as it prepares to build a turbofan to power the Comac C919.
The liberalization of general aviation in China has reached the northernmost part of the country, with the civil aviation administration approving a trial of sightseeing flights at Gegeen-gol in Inner Mongolia. But the trial is exactly the type that aircraft manufacturers are least interested in seeing: one that is in a remote part of the country where the authorities see minimal safety challenges, but where demand for aircraft will be slight.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
If China's new commercial aero-engine company is to compete with the Western propulsion majors in the next decade, as it aims to do, then its planned 30,000-lb.-thrust turbofan will need technical features that even those experienced competitors have lately found it challenging to develop. A first glimpse at the Chinese plans shows that in some areas Avic Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (ACAE) is playing safe, while in one critical section, the high-pressure compressor, it seems to want to go one better.
