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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has delivered a communications unit to NASA that will enable the company’s Dragon spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).

Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Early test results of a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet show a scaled-up version will have the capability to power a reusable, air-breathing hypersonic vehicle such as the canceled HTV-3X/Blackswift demonstrator to Mach 6.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Boeing says issues caused by a stringer trim machine at the Alenia 787 fuselage barrel production site in Grottaglie in Italy are forcing it to reinforce early units with patches and to add extra plies to future production barrels. The manufacturer does not yet have a schedule for the re-start of production of barrels, which was halted in late June following the discovery of “wrinkles” in the skin close to the join area between the Alenia-built Sections 44 and 46.