Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Los Angeles, CA

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA is testing and installing the avionics in the Orion crew module test unit at its Dryden Flight Research Center here, in preparation for transfer to the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range for launch abort system (LAS) tests.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Boeing admits first flight of the 787 has slipped into the second quarter of 2009, and deliveries into 2010, as a result of this fall’s machinists’ strike and the latest issue with fastener problems which affected both fully assembled and partially built airframes.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Robert Wall (Paris)
Boeing’s production and delivery rates are rapidly regaining ground, but the impact of the prolonged machinists’ strike this fall—added to disruption caused by a recent nutplate problem—mean year-end deliveries will likely miss 2008 targets by more than 100 aircraft. Airbus, on the other hand, appears to be on track to set a company record with almost 480 deliveries for the year.