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 — Avicopter is testing a technology demonstrator for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing airplane with a central lift fan. The manufacturer, part of China’s state Avic group, exhibited the unmanned piston-engine aircraft at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin this week.
Thai Airways is blaming landing gear failure for a Sept. 8 accident in which an Airbus A330-300 skidded off the runway on landing. Thirteen of the aircraft’s 288 passengers suffered minor injuries during the emergency night evacuation at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport after a flight from Guangzhou, China, says Thai Airways President Sorajak Kasemsuvan. There also was a cabin crew of 14 aboard.
TIANJIN, China — Avicopter is developing a technology demonstrator for a high-speed helicopter, adopting a compound configuration that combines coaxial rigid rotors and nose-mounted counter-rotating propellers.
