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.
China has deferred building a second airport for Beijing, opening opportunities for those at nearby cities to help serve the capital. A policy under development and not yet announced will determine the configuration of airports that will serve the booming city, whose population has already passed 17 million as it heads toward a future as one of the biggest points on the world’s air transportation map.
China has deferred building a second airport for Beijing, opening opportunities for those at nearby cities to help serve the capital. A policy under development and not yet announced will determine the configuration of airports that will serve the booming city, whose population has already passed 17 million as it heads toward a future as one of the biggest points on the world’s air transportation map.
BEIJING — The Japanese ministry of defense is considering ordering a further batch of about 20 F-2 strike fighters from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to sustain the country’s combat aircraft production base, the Sankei newspaper says. The aircraft would replace F-4 Phantoms in the air-to-air role and would be ordered in addition to the 94 that, according to a 2006 plan, were supposed to complete the F-2 program. By ordering extra F-2s, the ministry would protect the industry from delays in choosing an aircraft for the follow-on program, called F-X.
