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.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) is laying off more workers amid continuing uncertainty over the future of the U.S. national space policy and NASA's proposed Space Launch System (SLS).
LOS ANGELES — Sikorsky’s CH-53K for the U.S. Marine Corps took a further step towards flight with delivery of the first General Electric GE38 turboshaft engine for ground testing. The engine, which is 57% more powerful and has 18% lower specific fuel consumption than the T64 engine powering the current CH-53E, is the first of five ground-test and 20 flight-test engines slated for the program. The ground evaluation phase will include ingestion tests plus high-cycle fatigue testing.
SAN DIEGO — United Launch Alliance and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) are developing short- and longer-term solutions to prevent the cloud of burning hydrogen that envelopes the base of the Delta IV Heavy during liftoff. Seconds before launch, thousands of pounds of hydrogen are dumped through the three PWR RS-68 Common Core Booster first-stage engines to optimize their hydrogen/oxygen mix for ignition. Excess gas is deliberately burned off by radial, outwardly firing igniters or spark generators, prior to ignition.
