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.
Japan is sticking with its concept for a large fighter as it explores possible cooperation with the U.S. or British governments in developing the aircraft.
Honda Aircraft handed over 43 HondaJets in 2017, only the second full year of deliveries. Its North Carolina plant is designed to build six units a month.
