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.
Weapons clearance tests of the U.S. Army’s MQ-1C unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will accelerate this week with live firing of several Hellfire missiles from an aircraft destined for an Afghanistan-bound Quick Reaction Capability unit.
Boeing is preparing to reactivate the first 787 test aircraft for its long-delayed first flight later this month now that it has completed validation work on the modification to strengthen the side-of-body wing-fuselage join.
Just over 10% of the active Boeing 747-400 fleet is now laid up, the largest number since the first were grounded in the aftermath of 9/11, with aircraft either in storage, facing permanent retirement or awaiting conversion to freighter configuration. The latest data suggest some 64 aircraft are now parked, or 9% of all 747-400s delivered. This is four times as many as at the start of 2009 and three times more than 2004, when the inactive 747-400 fleet peaked at 4.1%.
