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 European Commission (EC) is promising tough measures to regulate civil unmanned aircraft operations as it moves to allow their progressive integration into European Union (EU) airspace from 2016. “If ever there was a right time to do this, and to do this at a European level, it is now,” said EC Vice President Siim Kallas, unveiling the proposal to create new standards April 8 in Brussels. “We need a single set of regulations that everyone can work with.”
Where aviation visionaries and telecommunications entrepreneurs have failed, Facebook and Google may yet succeed. The idea of using platforms flying in the stratosphere to bring connectivity to remote regions is back, this time with the persuasive support of the Internet’s giants.
Talk of streaming flight data from aircraft, sparked by the Air France Flight 447 crash into the Atlantic in 2009, has been rekindled by Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's disappearance over the Indian Ocean.
