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.
The threat to Chinese airlines from fast trains will become clearer and maybe uglier this year, as the railways ministry opens thousands of kilometers of high-speed track. New lines will include one between Beijing and Shanghai that will challenge China’s premier air route with trains running at up to 380 kph (236 mph) and connecting the two cities in just under 4 hr. According to several studies, the trains can expect to take at least 45% of the business.
Avic Electromechanical Systems and Hamilton Sundstrand will begin developing a facility in Xi’an, western China, in June following the formation of a joint company on March 3. The partnership will supply the electrical system for the Comac C919 airliner and also support programs outside of China.
BEIJING — China will launch the unmanned target for its first space docking in the second half of this year, having slipped a schedule that previously called for the module to be sent to orbit no later than 2010.
