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.
A new plant to be set up on a former Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipbuilding site will build wing skins and spars for the Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ regional jet, while final assembly should be handled at another new factory that the company hopes to build.
The rover of China's Chang'e 3 lunar mission is showing signs of life after being almost declared dead. Jade Rabbit, as the rover is known, is again receiving signals from Earth, Chinese media report. But engineers are still sorting through possible origins of a mechanical fault that appeared to cause the rover to cease functioning when it was supposed to go into hibernation mode for the punishing lunar night that began on Jan. 25. The mechanical fault, blamed on the “complex environment of the lunar surface,” is described only as a structure-control anomaly.
