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.
Despite the latest series of delays to the Boeing 787, program officials say they remain “very pleased” at the progress and pace of flight tests. Five of the initial six flight test aircraft currently are in operation, with ZA006, the second General Electric GEnx-1B powered aircraft, due to join the test and certification effort later this month. As of Sept. 3, Boeing says the test fleet has conducted more than 1,650 hours of flying over more than 540 flights.
New details of last month’s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 uncontained failure are emerging and appear to point to a fault with the oil system which led to a fire developing inside the engine.
Pratt & Whitney is upping the ante in the ongoing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine war by revealing the F135 has achieved 20% more military-power thrust than specification. The disclosure raises the demonstrated sea-level thrust for the F135 close to 50,000 lb. and follows results from the General Electric/Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team that indicate the F136 alternate engine has in excess of 15% thrust margin against the same specification (AW&ST Aug. 16, p. 18).
