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.
Sikorsky will start flying the prototype S-76D medium helicopter with composite main rotor blades within days, marking the resumption of full flight tests that are to include three aircraft by early June. The blades form a key element of the upgraded design that will also include a new tail rotor, more powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PW210S engines, a Thales-developed integrated avionics cockpit, active vibration control and an advanced health and usage monitoring system (HUMS).
Graham Warwick (Dayton, Ohio), Guy Norris (Dayton, Ohio)
Lockheed Martin is beginning ground tests of a cargo X-plane produced using advanced composite materials and manufacturing technology and designed to break the paradigm that airframe cost is dictated by aircraft weight. Assembly of the Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA), an extensively modified Dornier 328JET regional airliner, has been completed at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif., and the demonstrator is now in subsystem checkout.
Guy Norris (Anaheim, Calif.), John Morris (Anaheim, Calif.)
The next generation of small turboshafts and possibly diesel pistons will take a lead role in aircraft engine-makers’ efforts to broaden their helicopter market base when the industry reemerges from the current downturn.
