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.
PALMDALE, Calif. Northrop Grumman will begin acceptance tests on the first Euro Hawk variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) following its official rollout at Palmdale, Calif., Oct 8. The first international version of the UAV, which differs from previous variants in having six wing-mounted signals intelligence (SIGINT) pods, will require revised flight control software. This is being finalized for the start of taxi tests, currently expected to start in February.
Despite announcing a delay to first flight of the 747-8 into early 2010, Boeing is preparing for the flight campaign with key ground vibration tests (GVT) on RC501, the first 747-8, scheduled Oct. 11. The vibration test involves shaking the entire airframe and is used to determine if the structure is susceptible to any unsuspected aeroelastic characteristics. The evaluation supports the run-up to flight test by assisting in flutter test planning. It is also used to detect structural flaws and troubleshoot flight control dynamic problems.
Boeing is working to overcome a series of newly unearthed 747-8 final assembly issues, forcing it to delay the program for a second time and triggering at least $640 million in additional costs.
