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.
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) is due to begin deliveries of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to China this year, with engineers of the Chinese aeronautics industry possibly looking forward to the arrival of the aircraft just as much as the air force is.
To thrive in high-wage Australia, Boeing’s Melbourne plant must fabricate using advanced processes, such as the resin-infusion, oven-curing technology it applies to 787 work.
Australia has decided on early replacement of the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter, apparently regarding the type as not worth the expense of modernization.
