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.
In the wake of flight and certification testing of the PW1500G, Pratt & Whitney and Bombardier have made the surprise decision to build the CSeries without a novel propulsion feature known as the variable area nozzle (VAN).
Michael Mecham (San Francisco ), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
In a move aimed at avoiding mistakes of the past—but which also reflects confidence in the maturity of its commercial airplane programs—Boeing has created an organization called Airplane Development that will work across the enterprise to shepherd new aircraft through development, testing and certification.
Composite materials account for 50% of the 787 structure by weight, versus 12% on the 777. For aluminum the numbers are almost reversed, with the material making up 50% of the 777 by weight, against only 12% for the 787. The use of a carbon-composite laminate for the primary fuselage, wing and empennage structure has enabled designers to take advantage of the material properties in several ways.
