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.
Saab is proposing a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that it regards as a competitor to Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, at perhaps two-thirds the price.
In preparing facilities and support infrastructure for the MRJ, Mitsubishi Aircraft is looking at follow-on programs. Meanwhile, the first flight-test aircraft is back in the air, and the company has found its first lessor customer.