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.
With crucial Boeing 787 fuel-burn assessments under way and first aircraft deliveries approaching, engine makers are stepping up efforts to win more than $7 billion of unclaimed orders from airlines that signed for the aircraft without making a propulsion choice.
Boeing has received joint FAA and European EASA certification for the 747-8F, clearing the way for first deliveries to begin in early September to launch customer Cargolux. The flight test effort involved five aircraft, more than 1,200 flights and 3,400 hr. since the first flight on Feb. 8, 2010. Certification was only achieved after overcoming unexpected aerodynamic and structural interaction issues with the aircraft’s revised wing and flight control surfaces, as well as some delays to the Honeywell-developed flight management computer (FMC).
General Electric’s first performance improvement package (PIP) upgrade for the Boeing 787’s GEnx-1B engine has been certificated by the FAA. The approval comes as Boeing makes final preparations for the start of functionality and reliability (F&R), as well as ETOPS tests with the baseline Block 4 version of the GE-powered 787 in late August.
