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.
China is dramatically stepping up its efforts to procure western know-how, with Avic’s commercial engine company, ACAE, launching a large-scale recruitment campaign in Britain and the U.S. to back its development of a narrowbody airliner turbofan.
BEIJING — China aims to launch 13 weather satellites in 2011-20 as part of an effort that it says will put it at the forefront of some technologies. The country will invest 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in meteorological satellites during the period, says the director of the China Meteorological Administration satellite center, Yang Jun.
BEIJING — The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has sent two Boeing C-17 Globemasters to Japan with a water cannon system for cooling at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station. The apparently urgent deployment follows the dispatch immediately after the March 11 earthquake of another Australian C-17 to Japan for disaster relief missions. It also comes less than a week after the government decided that the RAAF’s four C-17s were so useful that it should buy a fifth.
