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.
T he last Western company to combine broad aero-engine and airframe businesses was Bristol, which the British government forced to split in the 1950s; the propulsion activities eventually were subsumed by Rolls-Royce.
