Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) is in development at a time of spiraling costs, uncertain oil prices and growing environmental pressures for airlines. Although studied by Pratt for more than 20 years, the GTF concept came to the fore three years ago when the project was launched to spearhead the revitalization of the company’s commercial engines business. Renamed the PW1000G in mid-2008, the engine is in firm design for initial application on Mitsubishi’s MRJ and Bombardier’s CSeries small-airliner projects.

Guy Norris (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio), Graham Warwick (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio)
Installation of an automatic air collision avoidance system that developers say will save a significant number of lives and “billions of dollars” in fighter service over the next two decades is underway on a U.S. Air Force F-16 testbed.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Lightweight composite parts for the hot section of future military and commercial engines will take a step closer to reality through tests now underway on the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 for the Joint Strike Fighter.