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 major supplier to China’s space program says it is conducting tests in preparation for space launches from a ship starting next year and also plans to fly a spaceplane around 2020.
A Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is appearing here at the Dubai Airshow during a deployment termed a flight training exercise but obviously intended also to market the type.
An agreement with the Chinese government that Boeing announced on Nov. 9 evidently includes an order for 60 aircraft by China’s CDB Leasing that was disclosed in July.
