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.
While a host of Western manufacturers see their new joint companies with Avic as a way into China, Avic views the endeavors as a way to the world. Like its U.S. and European aerospace partners, Avic believes there is money to be made by making onboard aircraft systems in China. And whereas the foreigners could not do business in the country without cooperating with the state manufacturer, Avic has judged that it just could not go it alone in trying to crack the global aircraft systems market.
Leithen Francis (Singapore), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
Sometime this year, a Japanese technician will perform the final piece of work on the last F-2 fighter to leave the Nagoya works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. With that, Japan's 45 years of post-war fighter production will cease and the progressive loss of skills already under way in systems manufacturing will have spread to every stage of building combat aircraft.
If there is a future for biofuels in aviation, it may be all the more secure thanks to work underway in the historic Chinese port of Qingdao. In this joint research effort, Boeing and a Chinese scientific institute are aiming at cutting the cost of bio jet fuel.
