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 (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Although open rotors offer a realistic chance of meeting lower fuel-burn requirements, they face potential hurdles to certification. To tackle these issues, researchers are finalizing preferred concepts on which to focus critical large-scale demonstration tests.

Guy Norris
Snecma says tests of new generation open rotors under way in Europe and the U.S. clearly indicate the concept will comfortably meet existing and future noise rules. Snecma’s verdict echoes preliminary noise findings by Rolls-Royce. It also reinforces views expressed by NASA that the path to service entry seems increasingly likely to be dominated by issues over certification and installation, rather than environmental compliance.

Guy Norris
Led by Boeing’s more-electric 787, new and future commercial aircraft designs are driving a surge in demand for increased electric systems power, says Rolls-Royce. Graham Hopkins, executive VP-external supply chain engineering for Rolls-Royce, says the current trend is driving toward a 10-fold increase in overall electrical demand.