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.
LOS ANGELES — Boeing’s X-48C blended wing body (BWB) unmanned research aircraft flew for the first time from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., on Aug. 7.
LOS ANGELES — Spacecraft component and control system specialist Moog remains on the acquisition trail after completing the purchase of American Pacific Corp.’s In-Space Propulsion (ISP) unit. “Our intent is to move up to providing complete systems, and that’s difficult if you don’t have engines,” says Moog Space and Defense Group President Jay Hennig. The In-Space Propulsion business, which Moog bought for $46 million, makes liquid propulsion systems and parts for satellites and missiles at sites in the U.S. as well as Ireland and the U.K.
ATLANTA — Orbital Sciences Corp. says it is “two to three weeks” away from officially taking possession of the launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Va., which will give the company the green light to complete preparations for the first demonstration flight of its Antares rocket.
