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.
An attack derivative of the Surion utility helicopter is shaping up as a likely project to sustain Korea Aerospace Industries’ hard-won aeronautics development skills.
ANOTHER DELAY: Mission controllers suspended the launch of South Korea’s first space rocket eight minutes before liftoff on Aug. 19. “There was a problem in the automatic launch sequence that caused the launch to be called off,” the head of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Lee Joo-jin, told the Yonhap news wire, without giving further details. No new launch date for the KSLV-1 launcher has been set. The launch had been rescheduled for Aug. 19 after a diagnostic error during testing prompted managers to abandon an earlier Aug. 11 target date.
Qantas has posted its first half-year loss in six years, although the deficit was moderate by today’s standards, and the carrier says it can see early signs of a recovery in demand. The Australian airline group lost A$93 million (US$77 million) in the first six months of 2009, 1.4% of its revenue of A$6.7 billion for the period. A year earlier it made a profit of A$351 million. Profit before tax for the financial year to June 30 was A$181 million.
