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.
Avicopter is in a hurry. It is racing against the clock to prepare a set of competitive products for an expected boom in Chinese civil helicopter demand by 2018. Having developed just one small civil helicopter substantially on its own, the rotary-wing subsidiary of Avic is rushing to design two additional projects: a second all-new type and an upgrade of the Eurocopter Dauphin so extensive as to be barely recognizable.
TIANJIN, China — A Chinese unmanned helicopter derived from the U.S. Brantly B-2B two-seater is nearing certification, with the Civil Aviation Administration of China completing its review of the aircraft in August. The Chinese navy is interesting in the helicopter, the V750, for carrying a light maritime search and surveillance radar, says the aircraft’s manufacturer, Weifang Freeksy Aviation Industry.
