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.
LOS ANGELES — Northrop Grumman and Alliant Techsystems (ATK), two of the main structural suppliers for the F-35, are both accelerating subassembly manufacturing as Lockheed Martin prepares to ramp up Joint Strike Fighter production. Full rate F-35 production is expected to start around 2015, assuming current funding remains on track, with one aircraft rolling off Lockheed’s Fort Worth assembly line every day by 2016.
Boeing is studying the possible deployment of unmanned air vehicles, such as ScanEagle Compressed Carriage (SECC), from the back of the V-22 Osprey. “It’s mostly through our Boeing V-22 program, but we’re looking at whether you could launch this thing out of a box,” says Ron Perkins, director of Boeing Phantom Works’ Advanced Unmanned Airborne Systems. “It’s very doable and would fit very easily in a V-22.”
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) founder Elon Musk says plans laid out recently by a company official for growth beyond International Space Station resupply and missions beyond low Earth orbit are not official SpaceX policy. Referring to a presentation given at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Joint Propulsion Conference in Nashville, Tenn., by McGregor rocket development facility director Tom Markusic (Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 5), Musk says, “Tom was throwing out a bunch of ideas for discussion.”
