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.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency hopes next year to begin full-scale development of the Advanced Solid Rocket, its proposed launcher for medium-size scientific payloads. A first flight of the three-stage ASR, to be built by IHI Aerospace, should follow in 2012 or 2013, sustaining the solid-propellant expertise that Japan has built up since launching pencil-size rockets in the mid-1950s.
Chinese fighter builder Avic Defense, consciously imitating Dassault, aims to build a large business jet as part of its strategy of exploiting military technology for its civilian operations. Avic Defense will also build up an aircraft maintenance business catering to airline customers, says President Wang Yawei, while offering new insights into the reorganization of the Chinese aircraft sector.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden plans to travel to Beijing next year for potentially historic talks that could lead to the sort of human-spaceflight cooperation with China that already marks the U.S. relationship with Russia. The way there is far from clear, however, and much work remains before U.S. and Chinese astronauts fly together in space.
