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.
Pratt & Whitney is poised to start test runs of the first full-size geared turbofan (GTF) core for Bombardier and Mitsubishi’s new airliner projects, amid signs of growing interest in reengining studies for the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
Switzerland’s fighter competition is drawing to a close, but industry officials are worried that after years of updating proposals and a flight-test campaign, the entire modernization undertaking may be put on ice while Bern evaluates its military priorities. Three contestants remain for the Swiss F-5 Tiger replacement program: Dassault’s Rafale, EADS’s Typhoon and Saab’s Gripen. All three have this month given the Swiss government updated pricing and program status information, the final element of paperwork to be submitted in the tender process.
NASA will attempt to reverse the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit out of the patch of soft soil where it has been trapped for almost six months, but acknowledges that if this fails the rover will probably be stuck there for good. The attempt is planned for Nov. 16, when the rover will be sent a command for about 5 meters of wheeldrive, with results expected back at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) the following day.
