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 — Australian researchers working on an ambitious scramjet-based access-to-space project have pushed back their launch target six months to early 2013 after electrical systems development proved slower to mature than expected. Scramspace 1 is the first step on the road to what Australia’s fledgling space business believes could be an affordable, reliable and repeatable launch system based on combined air-breathing and rocket propulsion. The effort is aimed at conducting free-flight tests of a Mach 8 scramjet.
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Air Force says activation of its Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite continues to progress well, and the launch of two more jam-proof satellites is now on track for 2012. Although launched in August 2010, the AEHF satellite took 14 months to reach orbit on Oct. 24, 2011, after debris in the propulsion system prevented the spacecraft’s liquid-fueled booster engine from placing the satellite in its correct apogee.
A system that enables an aircraft to taxi without engine power or ground tugs has been launched by Israeli airline El Al for application on its fleet of Boeing 737s. Developed by WheelTug, the system will use two electric motors integrated inside the wheels of the aircraft’s nose gear to propel it at speeds up to 28 mph.
