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 is preparing to make the much-delayed delivery of the first pair of Australian 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft for Project Wedgetail later this month, after completing tests of the countermeasures dispenser system (CMDS).
Guy Norris (El Centro, Calif.), Robert Wall (Paris)
National and international military efforts to provide greater rotary lift for operations in Afghanistan are coming to fruition. Royal Air Force AgustaWestland Merlin helicopters will shortly begin operations in Afghanistan, following the end of four months of training for the deployment, as part of an effort to increase the number of British support helicopters in-theater.
Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington)
Engineers are poring over a treasure trove of flight data following NASA’s successful launch of its Ares I-X testbed from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., but financial data are much more likely to determine the ultimate fate of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Two days after the flight test, NASA’s Constellation Program recommended dropping a planned follow-on “Ares I-Y” demonstration in 2014 because it does not have the funding necessary to get an upper-stage engine ready in time.
