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 — Chinese controllers have achieved a velocity within 1 cm./sec. of prediction in the braking maneuver that brought the Chang’e 2 spacecraft into its 100-km. (60-mi.) working orbit around the Moon this week. The lunar probe, China’s second, is now in a position to begin surveying the lunar surface, says China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
BEIJING — Australia will make urgent repairs to its two main amphibious ships with funds left over from an under-budget modification to a fleet tanker. A winning quotation from Singaporean ship builder ST Marine to convert the tanker HMAS Success to a double-hull configuration was less than the funds set aside for the work, releasing money for “priority repair” of HMA Kanimbla and Manoora, two assault ships that have been idle since late September.
Evergreen Aviation Technologies, working at full capacity despite a global downturn in aircraft maintenance, is moving toward a nearly round-the-clock operation of its physically constrained Taipei base.
