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.
Douglas Barrie (London), Guy Norris (Cambridge, England)
The Royal Air Force intends to withdraw the last of its C-130Ks from service in December 2012, irrespective of delays to the Airbus A400M airlifter, with the Lockheed Martin C-130J taking over the special forces support role. The RAF operates 17 C-130Ks, and a dozen will continue in service into 2012. All of these aircraft will have the most capable equipment fits in terms of avionics and defensive aids. The remaining eight C-130Ks will be withdrawn during the intervening period.
Rolls-Royce is gearing up to begin test runs of its environmentally friendly engine (EFE) research project. But attempts to turn U.K. Defense Ministry interest into financial support have been stymied, at least for this stage of the program. The EFE is aimed at a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide and a 60% reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions relative to current engines. The joint U.K. government/Rolls-Royce testbed is based on the Trent 1000 developed for the Boeing 787, but with more advanced features.
LOS ANGELES – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed an agreement with Conae, Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity, to launch two Earth observation satellites on the company’s Falcon 9.
