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 (Cincinnati)
CFM International is challenging Pratt & Whitney’s claimed maintenance cost savings for the geared turbofan (GTF) as the war of words over next-generation powerplants heats up in advance of crucial reengining decisions by Airbus and Boeing. CFMI, a joint General Electric/Snecma company, is offering a variant of its advanced Leap-X turbofan and disputes the veracity of the projected claims made for the competing PW1000G family.

Guy Norris
L-3 Platform Integration is preparing to start flight tests of the U.S. Navy’s first Spiral 3 configured EP-3E aircraft, following installation of the upgraded intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission avionics suite at its Waco, Texas, facility.

Guy Norris
Fuel burn is no longer the top priority for airlines and operators, according to findings from two recent customer surveys conducted by CFM International, the joint venture company set up between General Electric and Snecma. Despite the continued uncertainty over fuel price volatility, operators now consider reliability as their number one priority with fuel burn slipping back to fifth behind cost, quality and time-on-wing.