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.

Articles

Alon Ben-David (Farnborough), Amy Butler (Farnborough), Guy Norris (Farnborough), Douglas Barrie (Farnborough)
Protracted negotiations between manufacturer Lockheed Martin and the U.S. on the next lot of stealthy, single-engine F-35s are nearing a conclusion as program officials close in on a new baseline for the embattled program. But the shock waves of recent cost increases to the multinational Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) continue to ripple; Israel, for one, is sharply curtailing its buy. Lockheed Martin, however, continues to insist the price is lower than estimated by the Pentagon (see p. 41).

Guy Norris
FARNBOROUGH — Boeing has completed the final design review for the Indian navy’s 737-based maritime patrol P-8I, a variant of the U.S. Navy’s P-8A, and is preparing to begin fabrication of the first aircraft in the fourth quarter.

Guy Norris
Qatar Airways plans to accelerate delivery of its Boeing 787s to late 2011 and strengthen its fleet with additional 777-200LRs. The move follows a considerable thawing of the previously icy relationship with Boeing, which plummeted to new lows a year ago when the 787 was hampered with additional delays. Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker says the relationship is now restored, and the frustration he expressed publicly in 2009 is now “water under the bridge.