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 — Lockheed Martin is ramping up final assembly work on the flight test version of the Orion crew module as workers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) begin verification checks on the Orion ground test vehicle.
The five-way fight over the amorphous “10K” (10,000-lb.-thrust) market that dominated the top-end of the thrust battle in the late 2000s has given way to a wider spread of engine developments over a high-thrust bracket. Pratt & Whitney Canada, for instance, is pushing aggressively into the 12,000- to 16,000-lb. thrust range with a larger PW800-based demonstrator that originally started life as a 10K contender.
VOYAGER THRUST: An updated version of a thruster originally developed for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft missions in the 1970s has been adapted by Aerojet for future space exploration vehicles, including human-rated craft. The recently completed tests of the MR-104H monopropellant hydrazine thruster, conducted with Boeing and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, were focused on modifying the small engine with a modern, two-seat valve as well as evaluating an improved nozzle.
