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.
The Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau hopes to open Sendai airport to relief flights within a day or two, it said on Monday, now that floodwater has largely drained from the field. Work crews have begun the huge job of clearing mud that the March 11 tsunami dumped on the runway, says an official with the bureau’s safety and security division. But until the mud is cleared, they said they will not know whether the earthquake that preceded the flood has deformed the runway so that it cannot be used, says the official.
The Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau hopes to open Sendai airport to relief flights within a day or two, it said on Monday, now that floodwater has largely drained from the field. Work crews have begun the huge job of clearing mud that the March 11 tsunami dumped on the runway, says an official with the bureau’s safety and security division. But until the mud is cleared, they said they will not know whether the earthquake that preceded the flood has deformed the runway so that it cannot be used, says the official.
The Royal Australian Navy is moving to acquire a fast multi-hull commercial ferry to help bridge a gap between its worn-out amphibious assault force and the commissioning of new ships in the middle of the decade. Austal Chief Executive Andrew Bellamy confirms that one of the company’s unsold 102-meter (334-ft.) trimarans is an option. Defense Minister Stephen Smith says the navy also could acquire a catamaran—presumably from Australia’s other major fast-ferry builder, Incat.
