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.

Articles

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
U.S. government officials have been assured the delayed National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess) civil/military weather satellite constellation is finally on the path to recovery.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) are developing a turbine-based combined-cycle propulsion system that could be flight tested in a Mach 6 demonstrator, filling the void left by the cancellation of the hypersonic Blackswift vehicle in 2008.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
Boeing is preparing for an unprecedented wave of simultaneous certification tests on the 747-8 and 787 by using the extra time caused by delays to train, refresh and qualify a new group of flight-test engineers and pilots. Yet, at the same time, it is considering shedding administrative staff as part of wider layoff plans