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.
The second Boeing 747-8 passenger variant (RC021) made its first flight on April 26, bolstering the flight test effort that aims to culminate in certification and initial delivery by year-end. Flown by Keith Otsuka and Ron Johnston, RC021 took off at 9:26 a.m. Pacific time from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., and completed a 3 hr., 20 min. flight before returning to Paine Field. During the flight, the 747-8 reached an altitude of 28,000 ft. and a top airspeed of 275 knots, or about 316 mph.
Boeing says it would be “premature and speculative” to draw any conclusions from a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation update that suggests manufacturing defects could be to blame for the April 1 fuselage rupture on a Southwest Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
In a widely expected move, the U.S. Defense Department has officially terminated the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136. But the companies have vowed to fight to restore funding for the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine in the fiscal 2012 budget, indicating a willingness to help fund the remaining development. The termination notice follows a “stop-work” order issued on March 24 by Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter, pending final resolution of funding for the alternate engine in the fiscal 2011 budget.
