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.
Avic Aircraft’s proposed MA700 turboprop airliner will enter service in 2015 or 2016 under current planning, says Han Yiqiu, VP of the airplane maker’s Xi’an Aircraft works. The manufacturer is aiming at a cruising speed close to that of its current turboprops, the MA60 and MA600, derivatives of the Antonov An-24.
Avicopter is studying a 10-ton helicopter and sees a gap to fill with another, smaller aircraft as it works to become one of a small group of manufacturers with a full range of rotorcraft. A third helicopter under consideration, which would be built jointly with Russian Helicopters, would have a gross weight of 30 tons, says Avicopter, the rotary-wing specialist subsidiary of Chinese aeronautics conglomerate Avic.
BEIJING — China’s Avicopter is studying whether to build a 10-ton helicopter and sees a gap to fill with another, smaller aircraft as it works to become one of a small group of manufacturers with a full range of rotorcraft. A third version under consideration, which would be built with Russian Helicopters, would have a gross weight of 30 tons, according to Avicopter, the rotary-wing specialist subsidiary of Chinese aeronautics conglomerate Avic.
