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.
Robert Wall (Seville, Spain), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
To keep its A320 cash cow healthy well through the end of the decade as competitors emerge, Airbus is poised to pursue a re-engining of its single-aisle program. Airbus CEO Tom Enders says a decision on whether to re-engine will be made this year, but the depth of the aircraft maker’s analysis and views on the competition suggest a replacement of the current-generation CFM56 and IAE V2500 is inevitable. Airbus is in detailed talks on four engine offerings and plans to determine by the end of March how to move forward.
Boeing’s second 747-8—the RC521—(rear) has joined the first aircraft—RC501—on the flight line at Everett, Wash., where preparations for the start of flight tests are underway. A long list of system checks, or engineering work authorizations (EWAs), on RC501 (center) are being run before starting a final series of rigorous ‘flight-line gauntlet’ trials. Boeing says EWA tests are conducted “anytime there are changes, improvements or new components and/or functionality.
Boeing’s 787-3 mid-range variant is under a final threat of extinction following the decision of All Nippon Airways (ANA), the derivative’s sole customer, to change its order to other variants. Commenting on his blog, Randy Tinseth, VP-marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said, “Simply put, getting aircraft into their hands for earlier delivery was a better solution for them. As a result there are no longer any 787-3 orders in the backlog. Going forward, we’ll continue to assess the market viability of the -3.”
