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.
Russian Helicopters sees Avic as eager to begin a second Russo-Chinese cooperative helicopter production program, under which the small Mil Mi-34 would be built in China for the local market.
Taiwan’s main airline groups are looking forward to carrying passengers between China and North America, following Beijing’s decision to experimentally allow mainland citizens to transfer to international flights on the island.
Japanese engineers are preparing to build a combat-engine core, following progress in materials research for the low-bypass turbofan, intended for the country’s next fighter, the F-3.
