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.
The ability of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor to fly farther, as well as faster, than helicopters has been a key factor in its fight for survival for more than a decade.
Wholly owned Southwest Airlines subsidiary AirTran Airways will start services from California’s Orange County to Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City, marking the start of the first international flights from John Wayne Airport (JWA) to Mexico. The flights are scheduled to begin on June 3 and mark the airport’s first success in attracting carriers to use it for flights to Mexico as an alternative international gateway to nearby Southern California airports, such as Los Angeles International and Ontario.
In the final run-up to delivery of the first passenger variant of the Boeing 747-8 to Lufthansa this month, a group of pilots from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Association, representing Lufthansa’s flight crews, has flown the aircraft. The flight, which took place on April 9 from Boeing’s Everett, Wash., site, involved an aircraft earmarked for eventual delivery as a Boeing Business Jet variant.