Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES — 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 in the morning on Sunday.

Guy Norris
Airbus researchers are conducting preliminary studies of a dual-use, on-board inert gas generator (Obiggs) system to cut the risk of fuel contamination by water, as well as eliminate the chance of fuel tank explosions.

Guy Norris
Montreal-based CMC Electronics will provide its CMA-9000 flight management system (FMS) for the Boeing-led avionics upgrade of the U.S. Air Force’s 59-strong KC-10 fleet. The first tanker is scheduled to be modified and flight tested in 2012 at Boeing’s facility in San Antonio, with delivery of the final KC-10 modification expected in 2015.