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.
Masten Space Systems has become the first contestant to qualify for the $150,000 second prize in Level 1 of NASA’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. It flew a rocket-powered vehicle twice in 2 hr. between a pair of landing pads. According to Mojave, Calif.-based Masten, its “Xombie” vehicle “met the requirements of Level 1 of the Lunar Lander Challenge by ascending to a height of 50 meters, translating horizontally to a landing pad 50 meters away, landing safely on a concrete pad after 90 sec.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is preparing to conduct static fire testing of the first and second stages of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, following the completion of acceptance testing of the stages themselves.
Boeing is delaying first flight of the 747-8 into the first quarter of 2010 after encountering “greater-than-expected rework and disruption in manufacturing” during assembly of the first three aircraft during the past three months. The surprise announcement came as part of company revelations that it expects a pre-tax charge against third-quarter results of about $1 billion due to increased production costs and “the difficult market conditions” affecting its 747-8 program.
