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.
Small engines these days can mean big business, particularly if core architectures and technology can be leveraged for other higher-thrust applications. Early in the 2000s, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce realized the emerging super-midsize (SMS) business jet arena provided opportunities to launch new technology cores that could open doors to other markets, ranging from regional jets to next-generation airliners.
Graham Warwick (Washington), Guy Norris (Fort Worth)
Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin believes high-profile program failures in aerospace and defense could be avoided by engineering elegant system designs. But he cannot quite define “elegance in design.” Paul Eremenko, a program manager with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), believes problems could be avoided by measuring and minimizing the complexity of system designs. But he cannot yet measure “complexity.”
Could a real-life version of Watto, the unpalatable space junk dealer from the Star Wars movies, one day be the space warrior’s best friend? The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) says the removal of spent vehicles and dead satellites, by de-orbiting or up-orbiting and possible salvaging, could be the only long-term solution to the growing threat of space debris. Until recently, such solutions were the realm of science fiction, but the urgency of the problem is changing that picture.
