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.
A Chinese word, puji, probably best summarizes the biggest remaining challenge for business aviation in the world's second-largest economy. The word means to popularize something, or to make it well known—to circulate an idea.
So far, not so bad. The Comac C919, the single most important program in the great array of China's civil aircraft plans, has used up all of the slack in its schedule. The manufacturer is, by numerous accounts, suffering from at least as much bureaucratic caution as would be expected of a Chinese Communist organization executing a high-priority political project. And the aircraft, according to some industry executives, is likely to miss its target for a first flight in late 2014.
