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.
BEIJING — The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has sent two Boeing C-17 Globemasters to Japan with a water cannon system for cooling at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station. The apparently urgent deployment follows the dispatch immediately after the March 11 earthquake of another Australian C-17 to Japan for disaster relief missions. It also comes less than a week after the government decided that the RAAF’s four C-17s were so useful that it should buy a fifth.
BEIJING – Power cuts are a bigger problem for Fuji Heavy Industries than earthquake and tsunami damage to suppliers, Fuji says in remarks suggesting that aerospace supply-chain problems in Japan will be temporary. All of Fuji’s product lines are influenced by the difficulties, says a spokesman for the company, whose aerospace products include Japanese military aircraft and major assemblies for foreign aircraft builders, including Boeing.
Power cuts are a bigger problem for Fuji Heavy Industries than earthquake and tsunami damage to suppliers, Fuji says in remarks that suggest that aerospace supply-chain problems in Japan will be temporary. All of Fuji’s product lines are influenced by the difficulties, says a spokesman for the company, whose aerospace products include Japanese military aircraft and major assemblies for foreign aircraft builders, including Boeing.
