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
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. — U.K. forward operating bases in Afghanistan will be bolstered by the deployment of aerostat-mounted persistent ground surveillance systems (PGSS), following the successful clearance of integration issues with the British Army’s Cortez base surveillance control system.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
The intense battle over powering the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could be heading to new levels following test results that show the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 alternate engine has more than 15% thrust margin against specification, significantly exceeding the power of the baseline Pratt & Whitney F135.

Guy Norris
Boeing’s audit of Alenia’s workmanship on 787 structures, launched in June in the wake of faults on the Italian-supplied horizontal stabilizers, has prompted additional checks within other areas of the same parts. News of the most recent inspection was broken initially by Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh at an analysts’ conference in New York. Describing them as new issues, Albaugh said the problems will be “readily addressed.”