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.
A Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is appearing here at the Dubai Airshow during a deployment termed a flight training exercise but obviously intended also to market the type.
An agreement with the Chinese government that Boeing announced on Nov. 9 evidently includes an order for 60 aircraft by China’s CDB Leasing that was disclosed in July.
Boeing’s Nov. 9 disclosure of an agreement with the Chinese government covering 300 aircraft acquisitions is substantially a repeat announcement, industry sources said.
