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.
Airbus says it is confident of robust Chinese airliner demand until 2020, despite the slowing of the country’s economy and the gyrations of its stock markets.
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) is due to begin deliveries of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to China this year, with engineers of the Chinese aeronautics industry possibly looking forward to the arrival of the aircraft just as much as the air force is.
To thrive in high-wage Australia, Boeing’s Melbourne plant must fabricate using advanced processes, such as the resin-infusion, oven-curing technology it applies to 787 work.
