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.
DRACO QUALIFICATION: Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed qualification of its Draco spacecraft thruster and propulsion tank at the company’s test site in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX says tests included 42 firings with more than 4,600 pulses of varying lengths and were performed in a vacuum test chamber to simulate the space environment. “The series resulted in a total firing time of over 50 minutes on a single thruster,” the company adds.
The U.S. Navy is considering extending the Seattle-based flight test phase of the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft by several months to make more use of Boeing’s flight test expertise before delivering the aircraft to its Patuxent River flight test center in Maryland.
LOS ANGELES – Scaled Composites has taken the unusual step of going public with an update on flight-tests of its WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) mothership for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space tourism venture following a tail-scrape incident on the latest test flight at Mojave, Calif., on April 20.
