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.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) forecasts sales of about 100 civil derivatives of its XC-2 aircraft in the next 30 years, should the manufacturer decide to proceed with such a program after completing the development of its military transport.
Japanese Boeing supplier Nippi is looking to reduce the cost of making carbon-fiber composite parts by half, with the anticipated upgrade or successor to the U.S. manufacturer’s 777 a possible early application of this new process. By eliminating fasteners in complex pieces, Nippi estimates it also can reduce the mass of the parts by 10%.
