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 Southern Airlines is expecting savings in service time of 30–40 minutes thanks to the location and layout of the new airport due to open in Beijing in September 2019.
In choosing a site for the $1.1 billion system, vital for defense against North Korean weapons of mass destruction, Japanese officials used a ruler, protractor and Google Earth pictures to determine minimum elevation angles available for radars.
