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 (Le Bourget )
The first salvoes in a dramatically intensifying battle for the single-aisle airliner powerplant market were fired here as the first flight of Pratt & Whitney's PW1500G geared turbofan coincided with a landslide of orders for CFM International's Leap X1A on the Airbus A320NEO (new engine option).

Robert Wall (Le Bourget), Guy Norris (Le Bourget)
The demise of the Concorde a decade ago has left a notable hole in the premium commercial airline business. EADS is now exploring how to address that gap, but wants to go after the high-speed market niche with a far more capable system without the environmental baggage of the fuel- guzzling supersonic transport.

Guy Norris (Palmdale, Calif.)
New astronomical discoveries are emerging from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia) airborne telescope, which completed its first phase of science flights on June 8.