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.
Bradley Perrett (Singapore), John Morris (Singapore), Michael Mecham (Singapore)
Chinese commercial aircraft builder Comac is aiming to freeze the preliminary design of its 156-seat C919 airliner by the end of this year, working with suppliers and aiming at a first flight in 2014. The suppliers of major systems will be chosen in the first half of this year for the aircraft, which, with CFM International Leap-X engines, is a prospective challenger to Airbus and Boeing, albeit one with huge challenges in seeking market acceptance.
Robert Wall (Singapore), Bradley Perrett (Singapore), Michael Mecham (Singapore)
The competitive landscape in the 70-240-seat aircraft market is poised to shift as Airbus, Boeing and Embraer update their product strategies in the coming 12 months. The stakes are high not just for the manufacturers, but also for the engine makers vying for aircraft positions.
BEIJING—The aircraft maintenance business planned by Avic Defense will pursue civil as well as military customers, says company president Wang Yawei. Wang defines the proposed business as aftersales service and maintenance, including whole-life service. “In the past we’ve been weak in these segments,” he says.
