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.
Work to return to service the Qantas Airbus A380 damaged in last November’s uncontained engine failure is underway in Singapore. The aircraft, which was substantially damaged when the No. 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine shed a turbine disc, is about to be placed on stress jacks for major repairs to the wing and fuselage. Work will likely include replacement or repairs to the No. 1 engine nacelle adjacent to the No. 2 engine, which was destroyed. The No. 2 engine and nacelle are also being replaced.
The General Electric Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance is preparing to assemble the first of a lighter version of the GP7200 engine under a final wave of weight reduction efforts for the Airbus A380. The upgrade cuts overall weight per ship by 200 lb. The 50 lb. weight saving per engine is the last phase of a reduction program that overall has shaved 200 lb. off the GP7200 since it entered service in 2008. “We get an extra 50 lb. savings per engine with a new turbine exhaust case from Volvo Aero,” says Engine Alliance President Mary Ellen Jones.
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) plans to develop a new, higher-thrust demonstrator based on the geared turbofan core to break into the heavy business jet market.
