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.
BEIJING — EADS is offering to invest $2 billion in South Korea’s KF-X fighter program if the country buys the Eurofighter Typhoon, local media report. The EADS offer also includes an aircraft maintenance facility and an aerospace software center, says Yonhap news agency, citing the European company and the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) of the defense ministry.
The world’s newest aerospace aluminum mill, which Cleveland-headquartered Aleris has built at Zhenjiang in China, should begin producing metal certified for aircraft and space manufacturers by the end of the year, at about the same time as it reaches full production capacity. Aleris formally opened its 35,000-ton-per-year hot rolling mill in April, having begun pilot production there late in 2012. The plant duplicates Aleris’s major aerospace-aluminum facility at Koblenz, Germany, with detail improvements based on experience at that facility.
