Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

Articles

Graham Warwick (Washington), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
How do we get there from here? “There” is a future where aerospace system designs are light, smart, energy-efficient and affordable. “Here” is the present in which deficit-driven budget cutbacks endanger funding for technology development.

Madhu Unnikrishnan, Guy Norris
Honda Aircraft will build a new HondaJet maintenance, repair and overhaul facility near its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters at Piedmont Triad International Airport. Construction of the $20 million facility is expected to begin in the second quarter of next year, CEO Michimasa Fujino says. The company expects construction to be completed by the first half of 2013. The building will feature 80,000 sq. ft. of space, including a hangar, a workshop and customer support facilities, and is designed to provide heavy maintenance and overhaul, Fujino says.

Guy Norris (Las Cruces, N.M.)
Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America operations base will be equally busy carrying to sub-orbit research payloads and space tourists, say developers at the newly dedicated facility here.