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.
Google has acquired solar-powered high-altitude unmanned aircraft develo er Titan Aerospace, just weeks after Facebook revealed it is working on using stratospheric long-endurance UAVs to provide Internet connectivity to remote regions. “We’re thrilled to announce that Titan Aerospace is joining Google,” says the Moriarty, N.M.-based startup’s website. The company is working on the Solara series of “atmospheric satellites,” designed to stay aloft for one to five years.
NASA is starting up a program within its aeronautics research portfolio designed to rapidly demonstrate the feasibility of new ideas, bring back a culture of “learning by doing” and provide seedling funds for external projects. The Transformative Aeronautics Concepts program is introduced with NASA’s fiscal 2015 budget request, the first to be shaped by the agency’s new vision for aeronautics, which aligns research projects with six strategic thrusts ranging from ultra-efficient aircraft to assured autonomy.
A program to develop “flying cell towers” able to provide high-capacity connections between soldiers and operations centers or intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms has entered the ground demonstration phase. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (Darpa) Mobile Hotspots program is miniaturizing the millimeter-wave (MMW) wireless technology used by telecommunications companies to connect networks to that it can be carried by AAI RQ-7 Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft.
