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.
Guy Norris (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Michael Mecham (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne needs answers fast from NASA on the agency's direction in space exploration as it continues to consolidate facilities and staff in the wake of the Constellation and space shuttle terminations. “We're really concerned about this lack of a decision,” says PWR President Jim Maser, speaking to Aviation Week here at its rocket test headquarters recently. Earlier, he testified to Congress on the potentially damaging impact of the slow transition from Constellation to the planned follow-on Space Launch System (SLS).
Despite reports to the contrary, Boeing says it has no plans to announce in Junethe launch of an all-new model to replace the 737 or a decision to re-engine its best-selling twinjet. Instead, the company says those expecting a dramatic new program unveiling at this year's Paris air show will have to make do with “more clarity on which direction we are leaning.” However, if the signs of the last nine months are anything to go by, the trend continues remorselessly toward an all-new 737 replacement aimed at entering service in 2019-20.
LOS ANGELES — Lockheed Martin is studying “good candidates” for initial airframe weight savings of 100 lb., plus an additional 100 lb. in added engine thrust as part of plans to increase vertical-lift bring-back margin on the F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) variant.
