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.
BEIJING -— Japan has chosen the Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye over the Boeing 737 AEW&C to fill a requirement for four surveillance aircraft, while also confirming it will go ahead with orders for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk and Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey. Three RQ-4s will be ordered in the fiscal year beginning in April 2015, NHK television says. The timing of orders for the other types is unknown. The defense ministry announced selection of the E-2D, RQ-4 and MV-22 on Nov. 21.
ZHUHAI, China—Establishing a reputation in the global aerospace sector is an early task for Aviage, a joint avionics company of Avic and General Electric aimed at developing its initial project, systems for the Comac C919, into higher standards for later programs. A key step in achieving the reputation will be good performance on the 158-seat C919, the development program for which prompted creation of the Shanghai-based company.
BEIJING—The latest Hainan Airlines subsidiary created with local-government backing, Fuzhou Airlines, aims at an initial fleet of five aircraft, with 40 to be in service by 2020. The carrier began flying on Oct. 30 from the east coast city after which it is named. The local government is a shareholder.
