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.
Textron has formed a company focused on the simulation and training market after last year’s acquisitions of two manufacturers of flight training devices. TRU Simulation + Training will serve the commercial and military flight and maintenance training markets, says CEO Jim Takats, and is already working with newly formed Textron Aviation to support Cessna, Beechcraft and Bell Helicopter products as well as the Textron AirLand Scorpion light attack aircraft.
Key members of the team that developed and flew Qinetiq’s record-setting Zephyr solar-powered high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft have joined Facebook’s project to deliver basic Internet services to everyone around the world. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that the social media company’s Connectivity Lab is working on using unmanned aircraft, satellites and laser links to expand Internet coverage. Search-engine giant Google is experimenting with stratospheric balloons for the same mission, under its Loon project.
Boeing has revealed the first details of the air-launched microsatellite launcher it is developing for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (Darpa) Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (Alasa) program. Conventional boosters comprise a stack of stages, each with its own engines and fuel tanks. Usually of decreasing size, these stages are discarded sequentially as the payload is boosted into orbit.
