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.
Comac is still expecting to fly the third prototype of its C919 narrowbody by year-end 2018, according to an official from the Chinese aircraft manufacturer.
The objective of making the first flight of the new CRAIC CR929 widebody in 2023 should be regarded as firm, United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) President Yuri Sluysar said.
