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 (Los Angeles)
The long-awaited re-engining of the U.S. Air Force’s E-8C Joint Stars will take another step forward with the completion next week of flight tests of Pratt & Whitney’s JT8D-219 engines on a Boeing 707 at Mojave, Calif.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
U.S. Navy crews will test new electronic warfare concepts during the operational evaluation (opeval) of the EA-18G Growler electronic attack fighter starting this week at China Lake, Calif.

Douglas Barrie (London), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Rolls-Royce is aiming to certify its RB2011 open-rotor engine by 2017-18 for a 2020 entry into service, and the company is increasingly confident it has a solution to the noise problem that has previously blighted development efforts with this propulsion concept.