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.
State-controlled China Eastern Airlines is hoping for more strategic investment to follow the 3.55% stake that Delta Air Lines acquired last year, while also trying to attract more government capital.
Would Lockheed’s C-130J equipped with retracting floats provide the U.S. military with an amphibian answer to China’s Avic TA600 long-range flying boat?
Navantia is poised to win another Australian naval construction program following the choice of the Spanish company as preferred supplier for two replenishment ships.