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.
European defense companies are eyeing a possible breakthrough in hypersonic engine technology by researchers at the University of Rome, who say lithium hydride is a potential fuel for scramjets.
Stall behavior is considered the most critical control aspect of the unconventionally shaped blended wing/body, and Boeing and NASA are preparing to test the X-48B BWB research aircraft with revised flight control software that will enable more gradual approaches to the stall.
Virgin America successfully completed noise qualification tests yesterday with an A320 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., as part of the formal approval process toward starting services to San Francisco in late April. The low-cost airline will operate five flights per day to its San Francisco hub, competing head-to-head on the route from May onward with Southwest Airlines, as well as with American Eagle and United Express, which already operate regional jets between the two airports.
