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.
The F-35 program has no firm plan to shift to Quickstep’s glycol-based production method. But Quickstep, with Lockheed Martin’s support, has run tests on hundreds of pieces made with the process.
BAE expects to expand its operation at RAAF Williamtown, Newcastle, for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrades of F-35 airframes. "Depending on the customer’s requirements, new infrastructure may be required at our facility in Williamtown," a BAE spokeswoman says.
