Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington, D.C.), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
Boeing is preparing to clear wetland forest adjacent to its facility in North Charleston, S.C., following its controversial decision to establish a site there for final assembly of the stretched 787-9 variant.

Guy Norris
Boeing is pointing increasingly to a late December first flight target for the 787 as it awaits completion of validation tests of the side-of-body modification that prevented the initial flight taking place in late June. Preparations for the flight remain on hold until validation tests on static test airframe ZY997 are finished. Even then there’s more waiting to go through while Boeing and the FAA evaluate the results and confirm the design meets the required goals.

Guy Norris
Fresh from the success of its Ares I-X development flight-test launch Oct. 28, NASA is putting renewed efforts into studies of whether or not to incorporate a real Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) J-2X engine in the upper stage of the follow-on Ares I-Y suborbital test.