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.
XCOR Aerospace is scheduled to start rocket tests for its prototype Lynx suborbital vehicle this week, after announcing a partnership with RocketShip Tours which will sell rides to the edge of space for $95,000.
LOS ANGELES – RocketShip Tours, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based travel company, will sell rides to the edge of space for $95,000 aboard XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle under a partnership deal announced here Dec. 2. The first passenger for the space tourism venture will be Danish investment banker Per Wimmer, a self-acknowledged “space enthusiast” who recently made the first tandem skydive over Mt. Everest. Initial passenger flights are expected to start in late 2011, following first flight in 2010.
Labor contract negotiations with 700 engineers at Boeing’s Wichita, Kansas site resumed on Dec 2, following the overnight ratification of a new four-year contract with almost 20,400 technical workers throughout Boeing’s west coast operations.
