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.
BAE Systems and partners are now halfway through the Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac frigate upgrade program, with the undocking of the fourth ship to be modernized, HMAS Warramunga.
General aviation manufacturer Cirrus Aircraft may take Chinese orders for about as many aircraft this year as it has delivered to China in the past eight, even as the scope for private flying in the country remains limited.
It normally is not hard to find people with complaints, but one of the challenges for the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) is getting its Chinese members to share their problems.
