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.
Bran Ferren of Applied Minds believes aerospace, particularly the “space” element, needs new inspiration and that NASA, as the world knows it, should be re-born as a pure exploration organization to ensure relevancy for the rest of the 21st century and beyond. “The thing that's missing is called passion,” says Ferren, who is the co-founder, co-chairman and chief creative officer of the California-based special-effects technology, creative design and consulting company with clients ranging from the Walt Disney Co. to Northrop Grumman.
Pioneering aerospace engineer and Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan makes no secret of his frustrations with today's air transport system or his gloomy prognosis for the future unless radical changes are made. Rutan's forthright views are built on a career of breakthrough innovations, fierce independence and a string of eye-catching designs that culminated with the world's first privately developed sub-orbital spacecraft.
The pursuit of faster flight speed and affordable access to space are constant companions in aerospace's quest for continued relevance, and are set to remain so for the foreseeable future.
