Guy is a Senior Editor for Aviation Week, based in Colorado Springs. Before joining Aviation Week in 2007, Guy was with Flight International, first as technical editor based in the U.K. and most recently as U.S. West Coast editor. Before joining Flight, he was London correspondent for Interavia, part of Jane's Information Group.
In 2013 the Jesse H. Neal award for Best Technical Content was awarded to Guy Norris and Graham Warwick for their Advanced Propulsion feature. He received the 2015 Lauren D. Lyman Award for outstanding achievement in aerospace communications. And in 2018 he was awarded Technology Writer of the Year by the judges of the Aerospace Media Awards.
Guy is also a multiple winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in the Air Transport, Propulsion and Systems/Technology categories, and in 2006 he received the Royal Aeronautical Society Decade of Excellence Award for sustained achievement in aerospace journalism.
Amongst other works Guy has authored the aerospace section of a science encyclopedia and co-authored, and produced an educational aviation CD-ROM. Guy has also authored more than a dozen books on the histories of Airbus, Boeing and other airframe manufacturers.
Some six weeks after officially selecting General Electric (GE) as its “engine partner” for the 777X, Boeing has received approval from its board of directors to formally offer the stretched twinjet to customers. Boeing, which was originally expected to seek board approval for this milestone sometime in April, says it is “taking the next step by engaging in the marketplace, discussing more details and offering the airplane to customers—conditional on final approval to launch the program.”
As plans for larger, next-generation turboprop airliners gather pace, Safran group engine makers Snecma and Turbomeca have revealed ambitious studies of a potential new turboprop to compete for the market against General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Canada.
While the majority of helicopter manufacturers have focused their attention and development funds on ever heavier and technologically advanced machines, Robinson Helicopter Co. has become a significant rotary wing builder by serving the opposite spectrum.
