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.
The first General Electric GEnx-1B powered Boeing 787 completed a 3-hr. and 48-min. initial flight June 16, bringing total test time amassed by the 787 fleet to date to around 1,000 flight hours. The aircraft (ZA005) took off from Everett, Wash., at 2:42 p.m. Pacific time, flown by captains Mike Bryan and Mike Carriker. After performing initial handling tests over Washington state, the aircraft returned for a landing at Boeing Field in Seattle.
Boeing has won expanded type inspection authorization (TIA) for the 747-8F freighter, clearing the way for FAA personnel to participate in test flights and marking a significant milestone on the road to certification. Flight tests of the 787, meanwhile, are set to move into a new phase with the introduction of the first General Electric GEnx-1B powered aircraft into the program on June 16, pending a successful day of taxi testing scheduled for June 15.
Boeing is gearing up to start full performance tests of the 787 and is in the planning stages for a service-ready demonstration with launch customer All Nippon Airways.
