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 will launch a prototype of its new crewed spacecraft in April, the government’s Xinhua news agency reported, two months after the rocket to be used for the mission returned to service following a 2017 failure.
The first depot maintenance job on a Pratt & Whitney F135 module outside the U.S. has been performed by TAE Aerospace, the Australian company that is supporting the engine in the Asia-Pacific region.
