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.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A last-minute mechanical issue, not related to the scramjet, prevented the second flight attempt of the X-51 demonstrator on March 24, says Curtis Berger, hypersonics program director for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The Air Force says the next flight-test attempt from Edwards AFB, Calif., will be rescheduled following a check of the system, and when range and test assets can again be aligned. “We don’t know when that will be yet,” Berger adds.
An aerodynamic improvement kit designed to reduce the drag of MD-80 family twinjets by at least 3.5% is about to be certificated and offered for retrofit for both passenger and converted freighter models. Developed by Long Beach, Calif.-based design company Super98, the kit is the first of a potential two-phase improvement plan that could ultimately see MD-80 drag reduced by as much as 7.5%. Elements of the package are also being evaluated for a potential follow-on MD-90 improvement kit for 2012, as well as for the Boeing 717.
Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
United Airlines will upgrade its 52 777-200/200ERs with a Boeing-developed aerodynamic performance improvement package (PIP), taking total orders for the fuel-saving upgrade to 352, or more than 70% of the early 777 fleet.
