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
Airbus says it is “remains to be convinced” about the potential fuel burn savings on the A320 of the latest -BE upgrade version of the CFM56 engine currently in flight test for the Boeing 737. As a result, the airframer is discussing a potentially modified upgrade package, including discrete elements of the -BE aimed more directly at maintenance savings.

Guy Norris
Airbus says it is now prepared to accept an A320 re-engining proposal from Pratt & Whitney based on the geared turbofan (GTF) amid increasing signs that Rolls-Royce will not be persuaded to buy into the initiative under the existing International Aero Engines partnership.

Guy Norris (Palmdale, Calif.)
Astronomers will compete for early places on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia) airborne observatory as the start of science missions nears, following completion of envelope expansion flights with the telescope cavity door open.