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.
Air China will take a big step toward controlling Cathay Pacific, buying up more shares in a transaction that largely consolidates the Chinese state-controlled holdings in the Hong Kong airline. The stock purchase may be Air China’s penultimate move on Cathay Pacific’s share register. The next step could be a decisive takeover, although no one is saying when that will happen.
An attack derivative of the Surion utility helicopter is shaping up as a likely project to sustain Korea Aerospace Industries’ hard-won aeronautics development skills.
ANOTHER DELAY: Mission controllers suspended the launch of South Korea’s first space rocket eight minutes before liftoff on Aug. 19. “There was a problem in the automatic launch sequence that caused the launch to be called off,” the head of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Lee Joo-jin, told the Yonhap news wire, without giving further details. No new launch date for the KSLV-1 launcher has been set. The launch had been rescheduled for Aug. 19 after a diagnostic error during testing prompted managers to abandon an earlier Aug. 11 target date.
