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.
Top Chinese freighter operator SF Express has won approval to build the country’s first dedicated cargo airport, with construction likely to begin within a year at a central location that looks ideal for serving most of the country’s population.
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) X-2 fighter-technology demonstrator flew on April 22, around five years later than expected when the program was launched in 2007.