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.
China Airlines will set up a budget airline with the brand of Singapore Airlines affiliate Tigerair, with the aim of beginning operations at the end of 2014. “The network will cover major destinations in Northeast and Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan,” China Airlines says.
BEIJING — China will launch a sample return mission to the Moon in 2017, officials say, while declaring complete success for the current Chang’e 3 mission to land and deploy a lunar rover. The next mission, Chang’e 4, will be similar to the current effort, using a backup spacecraft and rover, but will be adapted to prove technologies for the sample-return mission, Chang’e 5, says Wu Zhijian, a spokesman for the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
Often, brochures for a new aircraft program depict a splendid variety of potential versions. Program managers, eager to persuade decision makers a proposed aircraft is viable, suggest it can fill this role as well as that, and—with further development—a few more besides. The temptation for such optimistic promotion is perhaps strongest for helicopters because they are so adaptable.
