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.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The “big five” U.S. space companies could lose up to 10,000 jobs over the next few years unless the government accelerates procurement of the first elements of NASA’s Ares V heavy-lift rocket and Altair lunar lander programs, warns Boeing Space Exploration division head Brewster Shaw.
Qatar expects to double its order for Boeing C-17s to four as part of broader plans to bolster its strategic airlift capability around the Middle East region and beyond. Speaking to Aerospace DAILY at a ceremony at Boeing’s Long Beach, Calif., facility for the nation’s first C-17, Qatar Armed Forces airlift selection committee head Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Malki says: “We’re looking for two more, and expect to sign for these around the end of the year.”
LOS ANGELES Scaled Composites has completed the third, and so far longest, test flight of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft being developed to ferry the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to its release altitude. During the flight, which took place from Mojave, Calif., on March 25, the WK2 flew for over 2.5 hours, and reached a maximum speed of 140 knots and an altitude of over 18,000 feet.
