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 has increased its investment in Joy Air, the subsidiary that it set up with China Eastern to operate aircraft from Avic’s manufacturing units. China Eastern transferred a 35% holding in Joy Air to Avic without payment, reducing its ownership to 5%.
Chinese aerospace conglomerate Avic is seeking foreign executives as its next step toward becoming a top-tier global aircraft builder. Foreigners are being sought even for the company’s Defense Div., as well as the specialist subsidiaries it is setting up for civilian markets. The foreigners will be among 13 VPs hired for marketing, research, asset management and other responsibilites.
Australia still expects to get the full radar performance required under its contract for six Boeing 737 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, whose program is more than three years behind schedule. “The system has the potential to continue to grow into a world-class AEW&C capability,” the Defense Department manager for the project, Air Vice Marshal Chris Deeble, has told an Australian parliamentary committee.
