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.
A cautious approach to flight testing, based on more extensive ground preparations, is the reason for the delay in the MRJ regional jet program announced by Mitsubishi Aircraft last month.
Accepting that the MRJ will enter service only about two years before its close competitor, the Embraer 175-E2, the company is now allowing for far more ground testing in support of the flight-test program that began Nov. 11.
