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 is deliberating with the FAA and Honeywell over whether software in the Boeing 747-8F is sufficiently representative to begin the last step toward final certification. Agreement is key to enabling functionality and reliability (F&R) tests to get under way by the last week of May, keeping Boeing on track to achieve certification around midyear. Boeing declines comment on specifics of the test effort, but a spokesman says, “We’re working with the FAA to get the go-ahead to begin F&R testing, and look forward to receiving it soon.”
Boeing is studying a potential hybrid engine update for future 737 derivatives as part of its strategy to stay ahead of the Airbus A320NEO. Concepts under mid-term evaluation include upgrades of the CFM International CFM56-7B with elements of the more advanced Leap engine, including re-fanning with a composite fan of the same size or larger diameter.
General Electric says a newly-defined performance improvement package (PIP) will bring the Boeing 747-8 engine to within 1% of fuel-burn targets, but acknowledges additional upgrades will be needed to close the final gap with a follow-on upgrade package.
