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.
Taiwan’s AIDC in November will begin trial production at a new composites plant on which it is staking its future as a supplier to global civil aerospace programs. In building the plant, the state-owned manufacturer is undertaking a broad push to upgrade its technology and to prepare to build larger composite parts. Its key market is programs for civil aircraft with up to 100 seats.
Imminent deregulation of China’s low-altitude airspace will help secure the future of the country’s rapidly growing business aviation sector. Opening up the skies for small general aviation aircraft should result in building of the small airports that business aviation will need in the coming years.
BEIJING — Chinese controllers have achieved a velocity within 1 cm./sec. of prediction in the braking maneuver that brought the Chang’e 2 spacecraft into its 100-km. (60-mi.) working orbit around the Moon this week. The lunar probe, China’s second, is now in a position to begin surveying the lunar surface, says China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
