Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.
Born and educated in Scotland, he graduated in aeronautical engineering and worked in advanced design at Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the U.K. before becoming an aerospace journalist. Before joining Aviation Week in April 2008, he spent almost 30 years with weekly aerospace news magazine Flight International, most recently as Americas Editor based in the U.S.
Graham is a winner of the Decade of Excellence award for aviation journalism, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards.
In 2013 the Jesse H. Neal award for Best Technical Content was awarded to Graham Warwick and Guy Norris for their Advanced Propulsion feature.
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab says the solar-powered Aquila flying-wing UAV — which has a span of 140 ft., comparable with a Boeing 737, but weighs less than 1,000 lb. — has been completed in the U.K. and is ready for flight and payload testing later this year in the U.S.
Facebook using UAV to provide Internet service; inflatable space tower may enable SSTO; JAXA low-boom test a success; blood samples survive delivery by UAV; radar upgrade overcomes wind-farm interference
Tethered unmanned aircraft might prove to be an attractive alternative for use by first responders, newsgatherers, infrastructure monitors and disaster relief personnel.