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.
China is redoubling efforts to keep its outstanding commercial air safety record, despite the challenge of 15% annual traffic growth that it expects to continue for some years. The civil aviation bureau is clamping down on airline managers coming into the industry without any background in aviation, is adding inspectors at a furious pace and is issuing new regulations to keep airlines focused on safety.
Douglas Barrie (London), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
South Korea’s stealth fighter ambitions are beginning to flush out European industry’s aspirations for manned combat aircraft developments beyond those in production. U.S. manufacturers’ low profile in the tentative KFX competition is raising the prospect that they could lose South Korea as well as Japan as captive fighter markets. Saab and EADS, by contrast, are laboring to address the requirement to support domestic development of a next-generation fighter.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Craig Covault (Cape Canaveral)
The immediate future of the U.S., European, Japanese and Chinese space programs is on the line this week as critical human and robotic operations are underway in orbits of the Earth and Moon. As Japn continues its multi-spacecraft Selene mission in lunar orbits, China is poised to send its first spacecraft to the Moon on a mission aided by the European Space Agency (ESA). The space shuttle Discovery is docked at the International Space Station for the most ambitious contruction mission yet at the orbital outpost.
