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.
Boeing is launching an inquiry into why shoddy workmanship in some 787 horizontal stabilizers was not detected until 25 units were complete, but says subsequent inspections will not delay delivery of the first aircraft.
Airbus is gearing up to build the A350 wing, the company’s first commercial composite wing structure, with the dispatch of large precision tools from California-based Coast Composites.
Boeing has completed firm configuration of the 787-9, the first stretched variant of the baseline 787-8. The milestone marks the finalization of the overall capability and basic design of the -9, which is 206 ft. in length, or 20 ft. longer overall than the -8. The -9 will seat 16% more passengers, or roughly 250 to 290 depending on seat configuration. Despite having the same wingspan as the -8 and heavier overall weight, the 787-9 is expected to have a range of up to 8,500 nautical miles — or around 300 nautical miles more than the -8.
