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.
A wide range of industry associations are calling on the FAA to expedite regulations governing small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS), and to allow their limited commercial use before final rulemaking is completed. The organizations are concerned the years-long delay in release of the FAA’s SUAS notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), now not expected until late this year, is holding back U.S. industry and encouraging entrepreneurs to operate in the absence of safety guidelines.
Europe is progressing toward the demonstration of key more-electric aircraft technologies on an Airbus A320 test bed, now scheduled to fly by the end of 2015 under the Clean Sky public-private research program. The A320 electrical Flight Test Demonstrator (eFTD) will test a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power supply, an electrically driven environmental control system (ECS), two different types of electrical wing ice protection systems (WIPS) and new laser-based ice sensors.
An experimental fly/drive vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) roadable aircraft had made its first Pentagon-supported hover flights. Advanced Tactics’ (AT) Black Knight Transformer is a demonstrator for a cargo-resupply or casualty-evacuation aircraft that can also drive on and off road. The 4,400-lb. gross-weight prototype had its first brief hover flights in March in Southern California. For safety, the vehicle was remotely piloted and tethered for the initial flights, and equipped with outrigger gear to prevent a rollover.
