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 — The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Jasdf) is expected to announce the result of its exhaustive F-X fighter contest this week, with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 strongly tipped as the winner. The other contenders for the $4 billion contract, Boeing and BAE Systems, are understood to have been advised of the Jasdf’s decision over the past few days. Boeing was offering the F/A-18E/F in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, while BAE Systems was leading a Typhoon bid for Eurofighter with support from Japan’s Sumitomo Corp.
A Boeing 787-8 that returned to Seattle in the early hours of Dec. 8 after spending 40 of the previous 42 hours in the air, arrived “clean” with zero technical issues, or “squawks,” say flight test insiders. The achievement capped a round-the-world flight that established two world records—for speed and distance—in the twinjet’s 440,000-550,000 lb. weight class. The aircraft used for the flight, ZA006, was powered by the Block 4 standard of General Electric GEnx-1B engines, rather than the more recent performance improvement package (PIP 1) configuration.
A summer-long review of U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities is pointing to a growing need for systems able to operate in contested airspace, greater integration with space-based and cyberassets, and more collaboration with other services and intelligence components. The review's results could prove crucial to determining which programs thrive or are shelved in the upcoming fiscal 2013 request.
