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.
Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
Boeing is developing a revised delivery schedule for the troubled 787 program which may push service entry as far back as early 2010, or almost two years later than originally scheduled. The company has been forced to slide first flight into 2009 because of the recently settled 57-day machinists’ strike. Adding to its misery, Boeing also concedes that delays due to newly discovered problems with improperly installed fasteners are being factored into the schedule revision, the fifth since the rollout of the aircraft in July 2007.
Pentagon acquisition chief John Young says the congressional cut to Joint Strike Fighter funding in fiscal 2009 will cause problems executing the test schedule for the program. Congress cut advance procurement funding for the first three U.S. Navy F-35C carrier variants, which were to have been procured in FY ’10. The aircraft are planned for operational testing. “Those planes are critical,” Young told a group of reporters at the Pentagon Oct. 30.
Boeing says the first flight of the 787 has been delayed to 2009 as a result of the recently settled machinists strike. Boeing says that “given the duration of the IAM work stoppage, first flight of the 787 Dreamliner will not be accomplished in the fourth quarter of 2008. The timeframe for first flight has not been established and will be based on the strike recovery assessment. The program is working to determine a new program schedule that will be announced when it is finalized.”
