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.
Despite the cancellation of noise qualification tests due to high winds at John Wayne Airport (JWA), Orange County, Calif., on Jan. 27, Virgin America pressed ahead with an announcement that it will start services from the closely monitored airport from late April onwards. The low-cost airline will operate five flights per day to its San Francisco hub, making Orange County its ninth destination. Qualification tests involving one of the carrier’s Airbus A320s are expected to be attempted again later this week pending quieter winds.
The helicopter industry will see three or more years of declining deliveries according to Honeywell’s latest market forecast, while Rolls-Royce predicts a less severe “softening” with the recession characterized as more of a bump in the road.
Bettina Chavanne (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Guy Norris (Anaheim, Calif.), David A. Fulghum (Washington), Michael Bruno (Washington)
New White House skepticism over the U.S. military’s VH‑71 presidential helicopter has thrust the multinationally sourced, Lockheed Martin-led program under new scrutiny, as analysts and officials debate everything from cancellation to sticking to the recently revised plan.
