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.
South Korea has scrapped a five-year-old plan to build a second major airport, saying that the two sites deemed most suitable were not suitable enough. One, at Miryang, would have needed too much earthwork, and the other, on Gedeok Island, has been criticized for being too far from major cities and too close to military airspace.
Japan’s IHI Corp. has resumed some operations at its two aero-engine factories in Soma and hopes to get its whole operation in the earthquake-struck city back online by May. Progressive repair work is under way at the Soma No. 1 and No. 2 Aero-Engine works, says an official from IHI’s aero-engine and space operations. Damage in some parts of the factories was relatively light. Production has partly resumed in those areas, including the machining of engine disks, the official says.
