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.
General Electric (GE) Aviation and NASA have confirmed they are teaming on wind-tunnel tests of counter-rotating fan-blade systems for “open rotor” engine concepts. Interest in open rotor research surged as fuel prices soared through the $100-per-barrel barrier at the turn of the year on their way to an all-time record peak of $147 per barrel in July. Ironically, Friday’s announcement comes as the price of crude oil plummeted to just over $60 per barrel, a 15-month low.
NASA is expanding research into fiber-optic strain and deflection sensors to include potential applications in monitoring spacecraft heat shields and shape sensing in composite aircraft skins.
STARTING UP: Lockheed Martin plans to ferry the first F-35A back to its Fort Worth, Texas, site on Oct. 24, following the completion of engine air-start tests at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., over the past three weeks. The tests, which included 12 successful airstarts, clear the way for the next Joint Strike Fighter flight-test milestones – supersonic flight and weapons bay door opening in-flight. These will be attempted with vehicle AA-1, which was used for the airstart tests, around December and January 2009, according to Lockheed Martin.
