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.
Boeing’s second 787 flight test aircraft, ZA002, is poised to join the program on Dec 22 pending final pre-flight reviews taking place at Boeing today. (See related story on Page 6.) The aircraft successfully completed a series of ‘mini-gauntlet’ systems checks late last week followed by taxi tests over the weekend, and is set to fly early in the morning on Dec. 22 sometime after 7 a.m.
Boeing plans to use round-the-clock operations on the 787’s test program as it seeks to win type certification for the new jet within nine months, followed by a first delivery to launch customer All Nippon Airways before the end of 2010. Although the 787’s first flight Dec. 15 marked the start of flight testing, the road to full certification will not begin until the aircraft receives type inspection authorization, the milestone denoting the start of full-time FAA involvement. This is expected in February.
Michael Mecham (Everett, Wash.), Guy Norris (Everett, Wash.)
With the drama of first flight behind it, Boeing will pick up where it left off when the 787 flight test program was interrupted last June by the need for side-of-body modifications. That schedule calls for earning type certification in 8.5-9 months, followed immediately by first-of-model testing and delivery to launch customer All Nippon Airways. Boeing’s initial plan was for flight testing to begin in August 2007, and deliveries in May 2008.
