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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES — Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) could be facing a further delay to its NASA cargo resupply demonstration flight of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft planned for December. Although lately targeted toward Nov. 30, and more recently Dec. 19, the demonstration docking with the International Space Station could be in danger of sliding into early 2012.

Guy Norris (Everett, Wash., and Anaheim, Calif.)
As aircraft designers focus on airframe and system integration, Boeing says that modifications to the 787's flight control system (FCS) provided it with a bonus in performance improvements that helped to avoid further structural redesign and delays.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
As Lockheed Martin readies for the imminent start of shipboard trials with the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, test pilots have given high marks to the jet's vertical-landing handling characteristics, though they caution that more work is needed to mitigate the effects of hot gas reingestion.