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.
South Korea is launching a software project as part of a wider effort evidently aimed at upgrading the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition.
By choosing the Bell 412, license-built by FHI, Japan has gone for low cost and low risk. The main alternative was the advanced Airbus H160, which KHI could have helped build for global customers.
Following the July 21 announcement of a FedEx order for 50 767-300Fs and options on 50 more, the SF Express contract, if finalized, will further strengthen the 767 program,
