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 Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ regional jet will make its first flight at Nagoya Airport between Oct. 26-30, a year after the prototype was rolled out, the company says.
The proposed Sino-Russian widebody airliner would compete with the Boeing 787-10 and Airbus A330-900. But managers from both countries will need to learn to work together, and Western suppliers will have to consider clear risks.