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.
An Aug. 31 story on the JDAM-ER mischaracterized the status of the agreement between Times Aerospace Korea and Boeing. The two companies ended their agreement to co-develop a wing kit for 2,000-lb. JDAM bombs, but Boeing intends to complete the work with other partners.
Airbus and the two Chinese partners in its Tianjin final assembly line have signed a framework agreement to continue the cooperation beyond 2016, the end of the current business plan. The agreement is not a final and binding contract; further negotiations will be held to clarify contractual details. Airbus, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone (TFTZ) and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic) have assembled A320-family aircraft in Tianjin since 2009. The existing contract expires in 2016, when 284 aircraft will have been built.
