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.
Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Robert Wall (Paris)
A decade ago, when the aerospace industry gathered in Singapore for Asia’s biggest air show, the region was playing a familiar role—leading international air travel out of a financial trough and giving manufacturers’ order books a leg up.
The advance of Asian aerospace industries is seemingly relentless, driven by factors that include national ambition, abundant engineering talent, competitive costs and government money.
BEIJING — The time may have arrived for the Singaporean aerospace sector to move up a notch by expanding its manufacturing segment into more risk-sharing partnerships. Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), the dominant part of the industry, also presents opportunities, and it cannot afford to rest on its laurels and cease its continuous drive toward lower costs, the Association of Aerospace Industries (Singapore) says.
