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 sophisticated autonomous capabilities under development for unmanned aircraft, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) wants to bring high levels of automation to existing manned aircraft to reduce pilot workload while increasing mission capability and safety. The agency has scheduled a proposers’ day for May 14 in Washington to brief potential bidders on the new Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (Alias) program, which aims to demonstrate a drop-in, removable kit that would enable operation with fewer crew on board.
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.
Showing pilots current and future sonic boom impact areas and intensities so they can adjust trajectories is expected to play a key role in securing regulatory approval for low-boom supersonic flight over land, and NASA is seeking proposals to flight test a suitable cockpit display. The contract is one of several to be awarded as NASA continues to prepare for a hoped-for flight demonstrator that would allow the agency to collect the data on community response to low booms that is needed to persuade the FAA to lift its ban on civil supersonic flight over land.
