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.
General Electric and Avic System will form a joint Chinese avionics company, improving the U.S. firm’s chances of winning work on the Comac C919 airliner. The business will develop and market “fully integrated, open-architecture avionics and services for future commercial aircraft programs,” GE said. The immediate focus is to jointly bid as suppliers for the C919, said Lorraine Bolsinger, president of GE’s Aviation Systems business.
A Chinese fighter of nominally the same technology generation as the Lockheed Martin F-22 will soon enter flight testing, while a jet airlifter larger than the Airbus A400M should be unveiled by year-end.
China’s specialist builder of large military and civil airplanes, Avic Aircraft, will become a publicly traded company by 2011, the company says, confirming that its restructuring as a more commercially viable enterprise is proceeding well. The company will acquire public shareholders by means of a backdoor stock market listing—that is, by injecting its assets into a subsidiary that is already listed.
