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.
Founded by McDonnell Douglas in the 1990s, before its merger with Boeing, as an answer to Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the Phantom Works has evolved to take on a broader role as the “innovation incubator” for the whole of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, says David Whelan, IDS chief scientist and Phantom Works vice president and deputy general manager.
Once best-known for its human- and solar-powered aircraft and more recently renowned for its small unmanned air systems, AeroVironment depends on innovation more than most other technology companies. Founded by legendary aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready in 1971, AeroVironment became a household name within a decade when his company won successive Kremer prizes for human-powered flight with the Gossamer Condor and Albatross aircraft.
Innovative ideas, like rare orchids, do not just happen. They need an environment where they can be nurtured and flourish. That is the mantra of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (ADP), better known as the Skunk Works.
