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.
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, Darpa says the same technology could be used in future commercial engines.
Boeing is testing Goodrich-developed carbon brakes on a Continental 737-900ER with expectations of better performance and weight savings of up to 700 pounds, or roughly equivalent to four extra passengers.
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) trying to figure out escape maneuvers for the stranded Spirit rover on Mars have received some partial good news after tests of the vehicle’s left middle wheel show it is operating normally. The tests have been conducted over recent days to assess whether the problem might be associated with the wheel itself, rather than the vehicle simply becoming bogged down or grounding on a small area of rocky soil.
