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.
The worst capacity crunch in Chinese business aviation should be solved next year with the opening of Capital Jet’s ground facility at the new airport at Daxing.
KAI has begun ground testing the prototype LAH battlefield helo with engines running, the last step before a first flight planned for no later than June.
Japan has grounded its 12 remaining Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings following the crash of one of its stealthy fighters over the Pacific Ocean on April 9.
