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 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.
NASA plans to work with Canada and Germany on joint flight tests to study the atmospheric effects of emissions from aircraft burning alternative fuels. The research is a follow-on to flights conducted in 2013 to measure emissions from biofuel blends. The latest series of flights is set to begin May 7 under NASA’s Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Emissions (Access-II) program. The agency’s McDonnell Douglas DC-8 will burn different mixes of fuels while other aircraft make inflight measurements.
Airbus is looking at using dynamically scaled models to flight-test new aircraft configurations and technologies under Europe’s €4 billion ($5.5 billion) Clean Sky 2 public-private civil aviation research program, which kicks off formally in July. NASA has for decades used free-flying models dynamically scaled to match the flight dynamics of full-sized aircraft, most recently testing the Boeing X-48B/C—an 8.5%-scale, remotely piloted powered model designed to investigate the low-speed handling qualities of a blended wing-body airliner.
