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.
Leithen Francis (Singapore), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
Sometime this year, a Japanese technician will perform the final piece of work on the last F-2 fighter to leave the Nagoya works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. With that, Japan's 45 years of post-war fighter production will cease and the progressive loss of skills already under way in systems manufacturing will have spread to every stage of building combat aircraft.
If there is a future for biofuels in aviation, it may be all the more secure thanks to work underway in the historic Chinese port of Qingdao. In this joint research effort, Boeing and a Chinese scientific institute are aiming at cutting the cost of bio jet fuel.
Joseph C. Anselmo (Tianjin, China), Michael Mecham (Tianjin, China), Bradley Perrett (Tianjin, China)
Ever since it was formed as a multi-national consortium four decades ago, Airbus has followed a straightforward model for building civil aircraft. Complete sections are fabricated in factories around Europe, then shipped to Toulouse or Hamburg, where they are joined together. So when the European airframer decided to set up its first final assembly line outside of Europe, it was a relatively easy step.
