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.

Articles

Guy Norris
Boeing flew the second 787 (ZA002) from Seattle to Victorville, Calif., yesterday, the first time the new twinjet has left Washington state for a landing elsewhere. The expansion of 787 flight test operations out of state comes as Boeing prepares to fly the fourth aircraft (ZA003) and win type inspection authorization (TIA) from the FAA. This milestone, expected by the end of March, will clear the way for the start of certification tests.

Guy Norris
NAVAL AIR STATION LEMOORE, Calif. — Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) crews are ramping up flight training and practicing air-refueling exercises here at Naval Air Station Lemoore, in readiness for ferrying the country’s first Boeing F/A-18Fs across the Pacific by the end of the month.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Radical aerodynamic and structural design technologies offering potential fuel-saving and noise-reduction breakthroughs will be tested in back-to-back experiments by NASA in partnership with the U.S. Air Force.