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.
Avic and Rockwell Collins will develop, build and market civil full-flight simulators in a joint company that they hope to set up by the end of this year. The agreement offers a joint path to success in a market that presents great challenges to both companies.
China Southern Airlines has received China’s first Boeing 787—five years after it was due—offering the carrier a new tool for dealing with its chronically weak international business. Perhaps ideal for China Southern’s challenge of opening long-range routes with modest traffic from its Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport base, 787s are expected to fly between the hub airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle, Vancouver International, London Heathrow and Auckland airports.
SEOUL — Strategic competition with Japan, China and Russia is at least as strong a motivation behind South Korea’s F-X Phase 3 program for 60 fighters as dealing with the North Korean threat, according to government officials in Seoul.
