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 ), Graham Warwick (Washington)
The first shoot-down of a ballistic missile by an airborne laser could be less than a year away, following “first light” ground firings of the high-energy weapon on board a modified Boeing 747-400F. But when that lethal demonstration takes place and what happens next depends on whether a skeptical Congress cuts the program’s Fiscal 2009 funding.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Guy Norris (San Diego)
NASA’s space shuttle program can continue to fly beyond its scheduled retirement date at the end of 2010, probably with only minimal impact to development of the first of its follow-on vehicles, as long as Congress appropriates enough money for both activities.
Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
Boeing was on schedule to meet its milestone for the debut flight of the 787 and had nearly completed assembly of ZA001, the first test aircraft, when machinists walked off the job. No significant near-term activity is planned on ZA001 or the three others in the 787 factory in Bldg. 40-26 in Everett, Wash. The facility can only accommodate four aircraft, although there is a staging area to hold major assemblies for another and that process had begun for ZA005.
