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.
China boasts a first in flying a regeneratively cooled, kerosene-fueled scramjet engine, but this feat seemingly repeats what the U.S. achieved in 2010-13 with the hypersonic X-51A.
