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.
Boeing and CFM International have defined the fan size of the Leap-1B engine for the 737 MAX at 68.4 inches, a slight increase in diameter that will increase performance without hurting weight and drag.
Airbus says initial flight test results of the “sharklet” winglet on the A320 show promising drag reduction results that indicate overall performance at or better than predictions. Airbus Senior VP-Leasing Markets Andrew Shankland says the device is on track to enter service on the A320 at the end of the year and will be installed on the remaining A318s, A319s and A321s in 2013. “The results so far are probably as good as, or slightly better than, expected,” he adds.
Sukhoi expects to deliver 23 Superjet 100s in 2012 as it kicks up production toward a target of 60 units per year by 2014. Five aircraft have been delivered to date, says John Buckley, Superjet International VP-business development. Speaking at the International Society of Air Transport Aircraft Trading meeting in Phoenix, Buckley adds that the assembly rate is increasing on track to deliver up to 40 aircraft per year by 2013.
