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.
Singapore Technologies Aerospace, already the world's largest third-party maintenance, repair and overhaul business, is targeting rapid growth and reckons it can achieve it without damaging its superb profitability. The company is developing a growth strategy based on its global spread of facilities and on packaging services as so-called total aviation support--doing almost everything for an airline except flying the aircraft and selling the tickets.
Eurocopter's Australian Tiger program is on budget and running smoothly after a bumpy start, as the EADS unit executes its plan to take over a national market that U.S. contractors once ruled. With the NH90 now holding the whole order for Australian Army troop-lift helicopters, the company may be just one competition away from dominating the core of Australia's planned rotary-wing fleet, leaving rivals with slim pickings.
Airbus could start the year in a similar fashion to its 2006 finale, boosting its A380 order book by enticing existing clients to buy more mega-transports.
