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.
Researchers are hatching plans for a new, multirole hypersonic flying testbed to bridge the gap to practical missile, surveillance and reconnaissance applications.
Pratt & Whitney is racing to defend the geared turbofan (GTF) against legal attacks from Rolls-Royce ahead of decisions by Airbus on whether to offer the powerplant on a re-engined A320.
Initial flight testing of Japan’s Kawasaki XC-2 prototype airlifter has revealed good handling qualities and high-speed cruise performance, according to test pilots from the Japan Air Self Defense Force’s (JASDF) Air Development and Test Wing. The XC-2, formerly the C-X, is designed to replace the 1970s vintage JASDF Kawasaki C-1 transport. With almost four times the range, the Mach 0.8 C-2 also will provide Japan with its first tactical transport capable of operations in support of international disaster relief and emergency assistance.
