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.
Chinese airlines, struggling to find flight crews, were offering three-year pilot contracts with salaries 70% higher than the U.S. average at job fairs in Miami and Las Vegas in the past week, says one of the organizers, Pan Am International Flight Academy.
China, as almost everyone in the business aircraft industry knows, is seen as the great new sales opportunity. But how long before it will also become the great new competitor?
Tokyo – Japan is moving into a large-scale upgrade program that appears to be enormously enhancing the air-to-air capabilities of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries F-2 fighter with an improved radar and advanced medium-range missile. The work is going ahead in two parallel areas: integration of the Mitsubishi Electric AAM-4B missile and an upgrade of the company’s J/APG-1 radar to the J/APG-2 standard.
