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.
Comac’s ARJ21 regional jet program has been delayed again, raising new questions about the schedule of the much larger and more important C919 narrowbody.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has delayed the first delivery of the MRJ regional jet by up to two years, but adds that it is trying to accelerate development. The first flight previously scheduled for this quarter, is now expected to take place in the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2013, “in order to confirm respective fabrication processes [and] provide sufficient time for technical studies.”
