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 MA600F freighter, a key program for Avic’s main turboprop line, has entered flight testing. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) team handling the type certificate conducted ground inspections of the aircraft, a version of the MA600 passenger aircraft, mid-March. The CAAC now has issued the necessary permit for test flying, says manufacturer Avic, although the MA600F made its first flight Oct. 24, 2012.
The Pentagon has officially notified Congress of the potential sale of 60 Boeing F-15 Silent Eagles or Lockheed Martin F-35s to South Korea, as the country weighs these American options against the Eurofighter Typhoon for the forthcoming downselect in its F-X Phase 3 competition.
