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.
Comac forecasts that 30,910 commercial passenger jet aircraft of all sizes will be built by 2030, of which slightly more than 10% will be single-aisle aircraft of 100-200 seats sold in China.
BEIJING — Avicopter is looking at outsourcing production to low-cost countries, even though most of its rivals would regard the Chinese rotorcraft company as already well placed to avoid high manufacturing outlays.
China’s Avic Engine is working on two new turboshaft powerplants, one of which is evidently intended for a large rotorcraft that China is negotiating to build with Russia, while the other may be aimed at a domestic regional aircraft.
