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.
General Electric is optimistic that tests of an improved turbine will show it is on target to close the 787’s fuel-consumption performance gap, revealed during evaluations of the initial GEnx-1B engine.
In an attempt to meet its April target for an A320 reengining decision, Pratt & Whitney says Airbus is actively brokering a solution to break the impasse over development of a potential International Aero Engines (IAE) version of the geared turbofan involving Rolls-Royce.
General Electric and Rolls-Royce are testing upgrades to their respective 787 engines, which they say are on track to get within 1% of Boeing’s original fuel burn performance specifications. Both engine makers discovered shortfalls of up to 3% and 5% with the initial GEnx-1B and Trent 1000s, respectively, but have used the program’s two-year delay to develop improved versions that will be introduced relatively early into the production flow and made available for deliveries in the first half of 2011.
