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.

Articles

Guy Norris
Boeing is partnering with American Airlines to conduct a 737-800-based ecoDemonstrator program in which a standard 737 production aircraft will be modified with an adaptive trailing edge, a variable area fan nozzle and regenerative fuel cell technology. The aircraft will retain its American colors for the six-week flight test effort, the trailing edge element of which forms part of the FAA’s continuous lower energy emissions noise (Cleen) program.

Guy Norris
PARIS — U.S. Air Force and industry team members studying the June 13 failure of the second X-51A hypersonic research test flight over the Pacific are looking at whether the timing of the ignition sequence was off, amongst other causes.

Guy Norris
PARIS — The Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney Advanced Turbine Engine Co. (ATEC) says it is on track to demonstrate up to 25% fuel savings on its future HPW3000 engine contender for the U.S. Army that could save up to $1 billion in fuel costs per year.