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.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has rejected calls to sell the government’s majority stake in loss-making Malaysian Airlines System (MAS), arguing that its financial performance is improving. The carrier reported a loss of 176 million ringgit ($53.5 million) for the three months ending June 30, compared with a loss of 349.3 million ringgit a year earlier, although the operating result swung to a small profit of 7.9 million ringgit from a loss of 101.9 million ringgit. Revenue rose to 3.8 billion ringgit, up 14.3% from a year earlier.
CANBERRA — South Korea appears poised to order 60 Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagles for its F-X Phase 3 competition, throwing a lifeline to the venerable fighter’s production line and offering the manufacturer an opportunity to improve it for future contests.
Boeing Aerostructures Australia is working on complex parts that require less assembly than current components. The division’s Melbourne plant, highly focused on production engineering development, also is developing new resins for composites while a third area of research is the application of robots for repairs of composite structures, company officials say.
