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.
Boeing is starting assembly of the first 747-8 Freighter fuselage, and loaded the upper crown and cockpit of the Section 41 into the jigs on Jan. 17. The event marks a significant milestone for the new model which is being developed in both freighter and passenger variants, but which has been delayed by last year’s machinists strike, as well as production and development issues. Total orders for the 747-8 currently stand at 106, 78 of which are for the 747-8F and 28 for the -8I intercontinental passenger model.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Northrop Grumman believes NASA’s upcoming exploitation of the Global Hawk autonomous unmanned air vehicle for science missions will pave the way for regular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in controlled airspace and possibly lead to dedicated commercial applications.
General Electric is investigating the causes of another gear box failure of a GE90-115B that forced the crew of an Air France Boeing 777-300ER to divert to Lajes in the Azores on Jan 4., flying for about two hours on one engine.
