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.
Continental Airlines’ first winglet-equipped Boeing 757-300 was delivered from Seattle to Los Angeles on Feb. 3, clearing the way for the start of longer-range operations with the model, including transatlantic routes. The completion also marks a new phase for the Aviation Partners Boeing modification program that has now been applied to more than 2,730 Boeing 737s and 757s. The blended winglet design is also being certified on the 767-300ER and is being evaluated by Airbus for potential application on the A320 family.
The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team expects to push the first production-configuration F136 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) to full thrust by mid-February, having achieved the first run at idle power on Jan 30. The run to idle and subsequent push to full power this month marks the start of a busy year for the engine development effort, which will see five F136 units enter testing by December for both conventional- and short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (CTOL/STOVL) fighter variants.
Boeing has officially resumed 787 assembly, an event marked on Jan. 29 by the join of the fuselage and wings for the fifth flight-test aircraft, ZA005. This is also the first to be powered with General Electric GEnx-1B engines, the first four being powered by the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000. “This airplane signifies our return to a steady production rhythm,” says Jack Jones, VP of 787 Final Assembly and Change Incorporation.
