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.
Japan is risking a rapid loss of fighter engineering skills, an official review of the industry warns, urging the government to avoid fully importing combat aircraft.
A heavy rotorcraft that Avicopter plans to develop with Russian Helicopters should go into service in the second half of the decade, produced under a program partly justified by the need for rescue aircraft amid natural disasters.
Malaysia’s AirAsia and the Qantas group’s Jetstar Airways are likely to deepen cooperation after announcing an alliance whose ambitions so far include seeking to influence the design of future narrow-body airliners from Airbus and Boeing. The planned joint specification from the two budget carriers will present Western manufacturers with a powerful Asia-Pacific-region influence in the design of narrow-body aircraft, just as airlines in the Far East have long been heavyweight players in determining the characteristics of wide-body commercial transports.
