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.
Sikorsky has begun blades-on powered testing of the CH-53K ground test vehicle (GTV) ahead of the official May 5 rollout of the U.S. Marine Corps’ new heavy-lift helicopter at its West Palm Beach, Fla, final-assembly and development-test center. The GTV achieved shake-down light off on April 17, beginning 200 hr. of testing required to clear the CH-53K for a first flight late this year. Bare-head light off, with rotor hubs turning but no blades attached, was achieved in December.
Work by General Electric and a Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney team on demonstrators for 3,000 shp-class helicopter turboshafts has been extended by the U.S. Army as it works to launch development of a new engine to upgrade the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache. The Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) technology demonstration program, begun in 2007, has been extended into 2015 after budget issues caused a delay in releasing a request for proposals (RFP) for Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) engineering and manufacturing development.
General Electric has begun component testing for a large turboshaft demonstrator that will lay the groundwork for engines to power the U.S. Army’s planned Future Vertical Lift (FVL) family of advanced rotorcraft. The detailed design review for the Future Affordable Turbine Engine (FATE) demonstrator was completed in November. “Now we are running components tests, including particle separator and combustor,” says Mike Sousa, new product development manager.
