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 — Avic Engine, well into development of a technically conservative high-bypass turbofan, is pushing to replace affiliate ACAE as the supplier of a Chinese engine for the Comac C919 airliner. In doing so, Avic Engine, the main propulsion subsidiary of state aeronautics group Avic, is offering a more dependable and realistic way for China to accumulate early experience in developing and building commercial aircraft engines.
China Eastern Airlines has thwarted an attempt by China Southern Airlines to set up a base at Shanghai that may have intensified competition for international services to the country’s largest city. The successful lobbying by Shanghai-based China Eastern limits China Southern’s attempts at reducing dependence on domestic business.
BEIJING — The South Korean air force has raised its requirements for stealthiness in its next fighter, according to a newspaper report that suggests the Lockheed Martin F-35 is now the only acceptable candidate in the F-X Phase 3 competition.
