Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

Articles

Guy Norris
Delta Air Lines' plan to purchase its own oil refinery in Philadelphia is advancing. “We expect to have the refinery up and running in mid-2013. We are in the process of making capital investments, and we expect returns in 2013-–not huge, but it’s a start,” Delta TechOps Engine and Component Maintenance Managing Director David Garrison said yesterday at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Atlanta. The refinery will be operated for Delta by BP and has the capacity to refine 185,000 barrels per day of which 15,000 barrels will be jet fuel.

Guy Norris
Faces shrinking budgets and fewer new program opportunities

Guy Norris
Safety officials are investigating an unidentified issue with a Boeing 787’s General Electric GEnx-1B engine that occurred on July 28 at Charleston, S.C., which shut down a runway and forced flights to be diverted.
Air Transport