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.
BEIJING — The single-engine aircraft that Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is proposing for the South Korean KF-X indigenous fighter program would be as effective in combat as the big twin proposed by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), KAI says.
CHINESE TRAINERS: Avic subsidiary Hongdu Aviation Industry Group will build a 1.225 billion yuan ($198 million) factory for manufacturing parts of trainer aircraft in its home city, Nanchang. Completion of the 208,000-sq.-meter (2.2 million-sq.-ft.) plant is due in three years, local media report, citing approvals from the Nanchang government. Hongdu is one of two trainer specialists in Avic’s defense subsidiary, Avic Aviation Techniques. The other is Guizhou Aircraft. Some of the trainer parts will be made under contract, presumably for Guizhou.
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Group forecasts an improved business environment for 2014 following a tripling of its profit for 2013, helped by strong long-haul demand. The group says it added capacity and frequencies again late last year, after cutting these in 2012.
