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
NASA will ship the first Orion crew module for launch abort tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on Aug. 19, but confirms that the Pad Abort 1 (PA-1) flight test has slipped into early 2010.

Guy Norris
Boeing said it does not yet have a schedule for the restart of production of 787 fuselage barrels at Alenia, following a decision to suspend work at the Italian plant after the discovery of wrinkles in the skin close to the join area between Sections 44 and Section 46. The company said, “This is all being accommodated within the existing overall program schedule. They are still working hard on the barrels they already had in production and are keeping busy.”

Guy Norris (Denver)
Lockheed Martin warns that fast-track plans to develop alternate commercial human-rated transport systems to the International Space Station could be costly in terms of time, money and even safety.