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.
Composites manufacturer Quickstep Technologies is striving to perfect a technique by the end of 2011 that offers to cut cost and weight from the next generation of narrowbody aircraft.
BEIJING — A Japanese advisory panel has renewed the push for the country to drop its ban on arms exports, a move that would open the way for it to participate in international weapons development. Adoption of the recommendations would greatly improve the economics of Japanese industry developing improved versions of the Eurofighter Typhoon or Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-15E Eagle family for the country’s F-X fighter requirement, since the resulting aircraft could also be sold to close allies.
Taipei Songshan Airport expects to begin developing a business aviation base around the end of this year when it takes control of a former military hangar. The downtown airport will follow up with a customs, immigration and quarantine facility for users of private aircraft next year while seeking a fixed-base operator to build a business aviation center, says airport Deputy Director Chen Jauyuh.
