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 helicopter assembly line owned by Airbus and Chinese state partners has begun putting together its first H135s, with deliveries due to begin this year.
The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.
A U.S. grand jury has charged a U.S. citizen of Chinese descent and his relative in China with theft of General Electric technology for gas and steam turbines, including know-how applicable to aviation.
