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 (Los Angeles), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Los Angeles)
SpaceX will respond to NASA’s heavy-lift launch vehicle study with concepts that can carry 150 tons to orbit and cost no more than $300 million per launch. Outlining SpaceX’s approach to the contract—one of 13 trade-study awards made by NASA in early November to look at innovative launch vehicle concepts and propulsion technologies—CEO Elon Musk says only plans that embrace economic, political and technical solutions will work.
Robert Wall (London), Guy Norris (Long Beach, Calif.)
As British military planners transform the new Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR) into a concrete plan, industry officials are keeping watch for new, if limited, opportunities. Some capability cuts may open the door for others to meet those needs. But there is little room to maneuver in the U.K.’s tight budget environment.
Amy Butler (Palmdale, Calif.), Guy Norris (Palmdale, Calif.)
Northrop Grumman is studying a significant expansion of its facilities at the secretive U.S. Air Force Plant 42 here to accommodate a growing portfolio of unmanned air system (UAS) and classified program work. The growth plan is driven by “a number of what-if” scenarios, as well as the rising tempo of black world projects, says Andrew Reynolds, Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale deputy site manager and production operations director. “Some of our classified programs have requests for expansion,” he tells Aviation Week.
