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 Southern Airlines is seeking a further capital injection from the central government following the 3 billion yuan (US$440 million) it received last year, says Chairman Si Xianmin. The company will also report a bigger profit in the second half of the year than the 38 million yuan it achieved in the first, Si tells Dow Jones newswires.
Mitsubishi Aircraft will build aluminum wing boxes for its MRJ regional jet, backing away from the ambitious plan to use composites while announcing a three-month delay to the program. Composite would not have saved as much weight as expected, said Mitsubishi, adding that metal structure will be more easily adapted to different versions of the aircraft. A third version could be added to the lineup, with the manufacturer considering a 100-seat stretch of the MRJ.
BEIJING — The China National Space Administration says it will produce a space launcher called Long March 6 by 2013, around the time that it had been expected to deliver the Long March 5. The timing suggests that the new rocket will be a relative of the Long March 5. In unconfirmed reports, the name Long March 6 has been associated with a lightweight launcher based on the side-mounted booster for the planned Long March 5.
