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.
Flight tests of the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multimission patrol aircraft are one-fifth through completion and, unlike a host of recent high-profile defense acquisitions, on schedule for targeted service entry in 2013. The initial three P-8As—T-1, -2 and -3—have amassed “close to 500 hours” of flight-test time at NAS Patuxent River, Md., says U.S. Navy P-8A Program Manager Capt. Mike Moran. Phase 1 flight tests to verify performance using T-1 were completed in December with “no anomalies,” he adds.
A replica of the Curtiss A-1 Triad, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft, alighted briefly from San Diego Bay on Feb. 11 to mark the start of a year’s worth of events marking the centennial of U.S. naval aviation. Rebuilt specifically for the commemorative event, the Triad replicates the aircraft flown by Theodore G. Ellyson, the first naval officer designated as an aviator. Trained at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation Camp at North Island, San Diego, Ellyson became Naval Aviator No. 1 in April 1911.
Pratt & Whitney President David Hess says China’s Comac is expressing interest in using a version of the geared turbofan on its C919, an aircraft launched with the Leap-X in development by archrival CFM International. Hess says the C919 will be powered initially by the Leap-X, but the GTF could power a C919 derivative, as well as the ARJ21 and possibly “a clean sheet aircraft.” Previously, Comac has discussed the use of an indigenously developed Chinese engine as the alternate for the C919.
