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 — China will send its Chang’e 2 lunar probe to the second Sun-Earth Lagrangian point next month, laying groundwork for Martian missions. The opportunity to send Chang’e 2 into deep space from Earth has resulted from the good condition of the spacecraft as it approaches the end of its lunar observation mission, says the China Academy of Sciences.
Avic Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (ACAE) appears to be pursuing advanced compressor design as it prepares to build a turbofan to power the Comac C919.
The liberalization of general aviation in China has reached the northernmost part of the country, with the civil aviation administration approving a trial of sightseeing flights at Gegeen-gol in Inner Mongolia. But the trial is exactly the type that aircraft manufacturers are least interested in seeing: one that is in a remote part of the country where the authorities see minimal safety challenges, but where demand for aircraft will be slight.
