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.
April 20 saw contrasting fortunes for launch attempts from the Pacific, with Sea Launch successfully placing Telespazio’s SICRAL 1B communications satellite into a transfer orbit while Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was forced to delay launch of its first commercial payload due to a potential compatibility issue between the Falcon 1 vehicle and the payload.
Boeing set the clock ticking toward the long-delayed first flight of the 787 on April 20 by starting the”‘factory gauntlet” tests, which evaluates all the aircraft systems during ground-based closed-loop tests to simulate flight-like operations. The gauntlet test is being conducted in two main 10 hour blocks, with shifts covering tests from the early hours through to a switchover the same evening. The daily rotation is scheduled to continue for an undetermined period until Boeing is satisfied that all 92 main systems are working as required.
U.S. Air Force planners are kicking off studies into advanced training aircraft and simulators to help determine the type of system they will need to replace the Northrop Grumman T-38C. “We’re doing an analysis of alternatives right now that will shape that answer,” says Maj. Gen. Greg Feest, who heads the 19th Air Force at Randolph AFB, Tex., where the Air Education and Training Command is headquartered. “We need a replacement for the T-38 because it is aging and it has single-point failures in that aircraft,” he adds.
