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.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is being readied for a second glide test following a trouble-free initial unpowered flight at Mojave, Calif., on Oct. 10. The 13-min. glide boosted Virgin Galactic’s hopes of staying on track to become the world’s first commercial space line, and comes as final preparations begin for the runway opening ceremony on Oct. 22 at Spaceport America in New Mexico, where Virgin’s future space operations will be based.
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion will use results from recently completed Mach 2 aerodynamic flight tests to pave the way for key evaluations of a natural laminar flow wing section. The tests are important for the long-term potential of the project, the viability of which hinges on the low drag of the natural laminar flow design. The low-swept-wing shape maximizes the amount of smoother-flowing boundary layer air over its surface, reducing total airframe drag by 20% versus similarly sized delta-wing configurations.
Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic are reviewing data from the first free flight of the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) space vehicle, which took place in perfect weather conditions at Mojave, Calif., early last Sunday.
