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.
With a wingspan of 164 ft., but weighing only 350 lb., the Solara 50 UAV developed by Google company Titan Aerospace crashed soon after takeoff. The aircraft came down in farmland, causing no injuries or damage. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
Alaska Airlines is expected to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight next year using alcohol-to-jet fuel produced from forest residues, through a project to use waste left over from logging and reduce the risk of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest.
Deliveries are to resume in 2017, and Kaman says launch customers include existing operators Rotex Helicopter of Switzerland, which uses its aircraft for helilogging, and Atlanta-based Helicopter Express, which conducts aerial firefighting and heavy lifting.
