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.
Pratt & Whitney always believed the pivotal launch of the geared turbofan for regional and smaller airliners was the first step to opening a crack in the door back to the big time. Now, with tests of the first Airbus A320NEO engine about to begin, there is no disguising Pratt's view that the door is finally yawning wide open.
Japanese company Mitsui has become the first strategic partner to join General Electric’s (GE’s) GE9Xengine development effort for Boeing’s proposed 777X. Though technically not launched as a firm program, the GE9X study has been under way for more than 18 months, and additional partners are expected to be signed up in the near future as the effort crystallizes.
To ensure a smooth production transition from the current A320 to the New Engine Option (NEO), Airbus plans to make parts for the re-engined version at the rate of 44 per month from the start, rather than instituting a gradual build-up. “We have no room for delays and recovery during the cut over from the old aircraft to the new, which is very fast,” says Klaus Rowe, Airbus A320NEO family senior VP.
