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.
A Shanghai-based joint-venture company will gradually take over the civil avionics businesses of General Electric and Avic. Establishment of the joint company can now go ahead, following the signing of an agreement of the Shanghai municipal and Shandong provincial governments to invest in the Chinese side. “This will be the main commercial avionics business of Avic and General Electric,” Avic VP Zhang Xinguo told Aviation Week after the signing ceremony at Airshow China in Zhuhai, Guangdong.
TOKYO—Resolution of structural faults has cleared the way for the beginning of series production of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries XC-2 airlifter next fiscal year after a delay of more than two years caused mainly by a need to reinforce the fuselage structure.
Zhuhai, China—Chinese rocket manufacturer CALT will boost production of its Long March 3 launcher following an order for 20 units from sibling company China Great Wall Industry Corp. A separate order for eight DFH-4 satellite buses will support the current production rate for that spacecraft by manufacturer CAST, also a corporate sibling of China Great Wall. All three companies belong to national space contractor CASC, so the two deals, together worth 15 billion yuan ($2.26 billion) and announced at Airshow China, are internal group transactions.
