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.
China is working on a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) but lacks practical applications of such material, says a leading Chinese researcher in the field. More than 4,000 CMC articles have been made for 360 types of parts in China, the researcher told a conference in Beijing. Apart from work on parts for turbine engines, Chinese engineers have been applying CMC to ramjets and telemetry systems. CMC is a key technology, because the material remains stable amid temperatures that defeat even the best metals used in aircraft engines.
BEIJING — China, now making a limited volume of high-grade carbon fiber that it cannot buy from Western countries or Japan, plans to build a plant with 20 times as much capacity. The cost of the fiber, of T800 grade, will be 1,600 yuan ($262) per kg, compared with the 4,200 yuan per kg cost of the established Chinese product, T300, the new plant operator told a conference in Beijing, although it was unclear whether the operator was referring to output from its present facilities.
China, now making a limited volume of high-grade carbon fiber that it cannot buy from Western countries or Japan, plans to build a plant with 20 times as much capacity. The cost of the fiber, of T800 grade, will be 1,600 yuan ($262) per kg, compared with the 4,200 yuan per kg cost of the established Chinese product, T300, the new plant operator told a conference in Beijing, although it was unclear whether the operator was referring to output from its present facilities.
