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 edging closer to deciding whether to upgrade the 777 or embark instead on a major derivative as it focuses on the competitive threat of Airbus’s similarly sized A350-1000.
Flight tests of the newly unveiled 747-8 Intercontinental will face key challenges ranging from handling to fuel burn as Boeing tries to drum up new orders and meet performance guarantees.
Boeing is studying which of the early production 787s will be the most optimal, standard-configured aircraft with which to conduct key function and reliability tests, as well as ETOPS certification tests. Scott Fancher, VP and general manager for the 787 program, says for the final phase of airline-like operational testing, “we want to do it in as final a production configuration as we can. Quite frankly, it’s a graduation exercise.”
