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.
General Electric has begun ground tests of a new GEnx-1B core engine with key elements of a performance improvement package (PIP) designed to exceed Boeing’s original specification for the 787. The GE and competing Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine are currently below Boeing’s original fuel burn specification for the 787 at entry into service. Both engine makers are developing fixes, with Rolls testing an improved ‘Package B’ configuration for entry into service early in 2011, and GE developing a two-stage PIP upgrade to be introduced in phases in 2011 and 2012.
Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Graham Warwick (Washington DC)
Pratt & Whitney is poised to complete final service-release tests of the F135 Joint Strike Fighter Stovl (short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing) propulsion system, while the competing General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 team says plans for first flight remain on track despite last month’s fan incident.
Many of the avionics advances required for future-generation U.S. and European air traffic systems already exist or are in development, but equipment and system manufacturers warn that the battle for timely implementation has barely begun.
