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.
Liebherr has agreed on the shares of development and manufacturing of aircraft systems allocated to Chinese industry in the Comac C919 program, while also seeing state companies as potential partners in customer services in China. A Shanghai facility to support Liebherr products is expected to open next year, says Francis Niss, president of Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation. At first, the facility will deal with Liebherr air management equipment but later will support customers’ Liebherr landing gear and flight-control systems.
ZHUHAI, China — Avic is promoting export sales of a fighter, unofficially known as the J-31, that has been shown in three apparently staged events over the past few months, including what may have been its first flight last month.
