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

Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin plans to begin expanding the flight envelope of the Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) following the June 2 first flight of the X-plane technology demonstrator from its Skunk Works facility at Palmdale, Calif. ACCA is a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) program to demonstrate that advanced composite materials and manufacturing processes can be used to produce an aircraft at lower cost in less time.

Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
A military engine program aimed at Mach 4-plus applications could have major fuel-saving potential for future commercial airliners. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Vulcan program is focused on integrating a new propulsion concept called a constant volume combustion (CVC) engine with a turbojet to power a full-scale vehicle from rest to beyond Mach 4. Although aimed at possible long range strike and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as missiles, the same technology could be used in future commercial engines, DARPA says.

Guy Norris
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Malaysia’s Astronautic Technology have set July 13 as the first launch window opportunity for the delayed Falcon 1 Flight 5, carrying the RazakSAT Earth resources satellite.