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.
Boeing’s second test 787, ZA002, began its first phase of taxi ground tests on Aug. 19 after two days of delays believed to have been linked to issues with nose gear steering and thrust reversers on the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. The short taxi test plan is aimed at basic systems check-out and is not directly linked to the larger aircraft test and certification plan, which is on hold pending the completion of the wing root structural modification.
Boeing is running through power-on sequencing of the 747-8 Freighter’s systems after moving the first aircraft, RC501, from final body join into the slant position on the Building 40-22 final assembly line overnight last Thursday and Friday. Power began flowing through the electrical systems at 5 a.m. last Friday. The process is a series of tasks that methodically energize and activate the aircraft’s systems beginning mostly with the electrical, before moving on to pneumatics and hydraulics.
Boeing and NASA have taken the wraps off the X-48C, a modified variant of the blended wing body sub-scale demonstrator aimed at proving ultra-low noise targets for future transports including airliners as well as military tanker-transports.
