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.
Rapidly growing Indian maintenance shop Air Works is negotiating to build a widebody hangar at a major Indian airport, aiming initially at serving customers from India, nearby countries and perhaps Europe. A contract with one of the two airports under consideration should be signed by the end of the year, says Air Works CEO Vivek Gour. Construction of the hangar, with space for one widebody aircraft or two narrowbodies, will take nine to 10 months. Another hangar of about the same size could follow later, Gour tells The DAILY.
BEIJING — South Korea will begin exploratory development of the Korea Attack Helicopter project, intended to create a home-grown replacement for the army’s AH-1S Cobras and Hughes 500MDs. An allocation of 19.2 billion won ($17 million) will pay for the work.
BEIJING — China will validate a range of technologies with its recently launched second lunar probe, including the landing of a camera on the surface of the Moon and control of a spacecraft by X-band communications.
