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.
Flight tests of the higher-thrust General Electric engine, standard for the stretched Boeing 787-9, indicate performance is on track to meet targeted fuel burn improvements for service entry on 787-8s early in 2013 and -9s in 2014.
After validating assumptions on the manufacturing cost and efficiency of laminar flow, Boeing is proceeding with a baseline design for the horizontal and vertical stabilizers on the 787-9. Boeing’s patented hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) system will be the industry’s first use of a drag-reducing technology that works by sucking in the air flowing over the skin to keep the smoother boundary layer attached to more of the chord. The result is a delay in the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, which cuts drag.
