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.
The FAA says the decision by a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) judge overturning the agency’s first fine against an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operator risks causing confusion about what type of aircraft are covered by FAA safety regulations. Administrative law judge Patrick Geraghty on March 6 dismissed the $10,000 fine imposed by the FAA on Raphael Pirker for operating a Ritewing Zephyr over the University of Virginia, arguing the agency has no regulations governing the use of UAS.
Sikorsky has completed an unmanned cargo logistics demonstration with its optionally piloted Black Hawk testbed and says the next demo will involve teaming with an unmanned ground vehicle. A UH-60MU fly-by-wire (FBW) test aircraft modified for optionally piloted operation completed the cargo demo on March 11 under Sikorsky’s Manned/Unmanned Aerial Lifter (Mural) program, a cooperative effort with the U.S. Army.
The first of six sites selected by the FAA in December to conduct unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research has become operational and plans to begin flying a small quadcopter in early May in support of precision agriculture research. The Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems test site won the race to be the first of the six to become operational when the FAA awarded the North Dakota Department of Commerce a certificate of authorization (COA) to operate the Draganflyer X4-ES small UAS.
