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.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has won a fifth customer for its T-50 family of supersonic trainers and light attackers, with Thailand agreeing to buy four of the aircraft.
China Aviation Supplies—the agency that buys aircraft in bulk for Chinese airlines—has also allocated 15 of the aircraft to China Eastern, five to Tibet Airlines and five to Sichuan Airlines, industry sources said.
