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.
Revealing the latest timetable, Avic said the first flight-test aircraft is nearing completion at the Zhuhai, China, base of its general aviation subsidiary Caiga.
The first flight of the Avic AG600 amphibious aircraft has slipped to the first half of next year, extending the probable development period to nine years.