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.
The U.S. Air Force together with Northrop Grumman will mark the 50th anniversary of the first test flight of the developmental YT-38 on April 10. The milestone comes as the Air Force waits for companies to respond later this month to a request for information (RFI) for a future Advanced Pilot Training (APT) “family of systems” that will replace it.
Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), a nonprofit research and development corporation owned by Utah State University, is preparing to deliver the main sensing unit of NASA’s upcoming Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to Ball Aerospace for integration into the spacecraft. SDL pioneered the “solid hydrogen” cooling technology at the heart of the WISE spacecraft, which is due to be launched in November to survey the entire sky in four mid-infrared bands spanning from 2.8 to 26 microns.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The chief designer of China’s manned space program, Zhou Jiaping, says more tests of the spacesuit used in his nation’s first spacewalk are upcoming, along with upgrades planned to meet long-term requirements for lunar exploration.
