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.
The Japanese defense ministry is recommending tighter contracting arrangements for the Next Generation Fighter than applied in the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) F-2 program of the 1990s.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has reiterated to Shanghai its general requirement that passenger aircraft arriving from abroad must be no more than 75% full.
The CRAIC CR929 widebody-airliner program has slipped two years, with first delivery now due as late as 2029 following difficulties in cooperation between the Russian and Chinese partners.
