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.
Boeing will focus on technology for an advanced production system capable of making more than 60 aircraft per month as part of New Small Airplane (NSA) studies aimed at fielding a replacement for the 737 Next Generation family as early as 2019. The company has spent the first half of the year “engaged with a group of customers to look at different configurations,” says Vice President Nicole Piasecki, the chief business strategist. Now the study will focus on how to produce an all-new aircraft at record numbers virtually from a standing start.
Boeing says it “sees the finish line” for certification of the 747-8 Freighter following the start of function and reliability tests, the last milestone toward approval, on June 1. “It's the last piece of the pie” says 747 vice president and general manager Elizabeth Lund of the F&R tests, adding that as of early June some 92% of the required conditions had been flown, with 87% of certification test items also complete. “Certification submittals are nearly complete,” she said. “We started with more than 1,000; we are down to double digits.”
CFM International will announce a raft of orders for the Leap engine on the A320NEO (new engine option) at the Paris air show following a late redesign with a larger fan, which makes the engine more competitive with Pratt & Whitney's PW1100G geared turbofan.
