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.
With its sharp-nosed fuselage and sweeping, feathering tails, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) makes for an imposing sight as it comes together in the Scaled Composites facility at Mojave, Calif. Measuring 60 ft. in overall length, the 42-ft.-span clipped delta-wing vehicle merges the proportions of a business jet with the sci-fi look of a Star Wars fighter. Yet there is nothing illusionary about this project or its suborbital ambitions as Scaled workers begin to close up the wing skins and complete the systems installation on the SS2.
Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Joseph C. Anselmo (New York), Andy Nativi (Genoa and Rome)
Boeing’s decision to tap James Albaugh to run its Commercial Airplanes unit is generating mixed reviews in the investment community, where enthusiasm for his technical knowledge and management ability is offset by concerns about his lack of experience in the commercial aviation sector. Albaugh arrived in Seattle on Sept. 1 as the new CEO and president of BCA, having left the same post at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, a unit he had led since its inception in 2002. He succeeds Scott Carson, who stepped down the day before and will retire at year’s end
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
When the emerging private human spaceflight industry finally takes to the skies and beyond, there will be a network of spaceports to serve its vehicles and—in the U.S., at least—regulations to make their risky sorties as safe as possible.
