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’s Avic Electromechanical Systems is negotiating with unidentified foreign companies to jointly supply equipment to the planned MA700 turboprop airliner of sibling company Avic Aircraft. Company VP Lu Weijia says Avic Electromechanical is prepared to work alone on the MA700, if necessary, depending on the nature of the systems. But there are strong advantages in international cooperation, as the company is already discovering in the joint businesses it has set up with Parker Aerospace in the Comac C919 narrowbody airliner program.
We have to start sometime. What's the point of waiting?” That idea, often heard in the Chinese aero-engine industry, probably best sums up the fatalistic attitude as the country's aviation propulsion sector, experienced mainly in making foreign machinery, sets out to take on leading Western and Russian manufacturers.
TIANJIN, China — China’s Avic Engine is working on two new turboshaft powerplants, one of which is evidently intended for a very big rotorcraft that China is negotiating to build with Russia, while the other may be aimed at a domestic regional airliner.
