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 Aircraft has swooped on Austrian aerospace manufacturer FACC in the first case of a Chinese manufacturer buying a first-tier Western supplier to Airbus and Boeing.
The dam holding back Chinese business aviation is breaking, raising manufacturers’ hopes of selling large volumes of aircraft in a market that has always had great potential but little immediate value. Chinese authorities are now accepting flight plans three hours before takeoff, whereas previously they often wanted them the day before.
Avic Aircraft has swooped down on Austrian aerospace manufacturer FACC in the first case of a Chinese manufacturer buying a first-tier Western supplier to Airbus and Boeing. The purchase of the company, with its extensive composites expertise, may strengthen the technology base of the Comac C919 narrowbody airliner, for which Avic Aircraft will be a major supplier, although FACC says it will protect its intellectual property.
