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)
Rockwell Collins is rig-testing a full-performance active sidestick controller for civil aircraft, and hopes to launch the next-generation cockpit feature by partnering with an airframe maker to develop the initial application.

Guy Norris
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA is close to finalizing approval for the launch of its Ares I-X suborbital flight-test demonstrator with range officials at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and currently expects to roll the 327-foot-tall vehicle to the pad on Oct. 29 for a planned launch two days later.

Guy Norris
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA and Lockheed Martin are on track to close out all remaining open items from the Orion spacecraft preliminary design review by Oct. 1, program managers say. “All the requirements are met apart from a few outliers” says John Curry, NASA Orion project vehicle integration office manager. “We’re heading toward critical design review in February 2011 and the overall schedule is marching toward completion in 2015.”