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.
In mixed news for General Electric, the FAA has awarded 330-minute extended range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) for the GEnx-1B-powered Boeing 787, but Boeing has confirmed that aircraft certification will slide into 2012.
Boeing is optimistic of gaining FAA certification in the next few weeks for the first 787 capable of flying long-haul international routes following completion of flight tests of the improved Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 “Package B” engines on Nov. 28. The upgraded engine, tested on 787 ZA004, is designed to bring performance to within 1% of Boeing’s original specification and will be rated at 70,000 lbs. thrust for delivery of the first long-range 787-8 version for All Nippon Airways (ANA).
A preliminary report by Polish accident investigators into the wheels-up landing of a LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300 Nov. 1 at Warsaw Okecie Airport hints that the crew may have missed an open circuit breaker that disabled the back-up mechanism for lowering the landing gear.
