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.
Robert Wall (Derby, England), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Rolls-Royce hopes better-than-expected early test results from its newest and largest engine, the Trent XWB, will bolster its market position as it recovers from a difficult year. Although flight trials of the latest Trent variant are yet to begin, bench tests of the engine for the Airbus A350 have yielded “very positive results,” says program director Chris Cholerton. Specific fuel consumption (SFC) “is better than expected.” Flight tests on the first A380, now an Airbus testbed, are due in the late summer or early fall.
PALMDALE, Calif. — Early 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.
LOS ANGELES — Scaled Composites says flight tests of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (SS2) modified with nose strakes indicate the devices produce “much improved longitudinal dynamics in the feather.” The strakes were tested on the 10th glide flight of SS2 following release from the White Knight Two (WK2) mothership over the Mojave Desert, Calif., on May 25. The test is only the second time the feathering re-entry mechanism has been activated in flight since the first feathering flight on May 4.
