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.
SAN DIEGO – NASA plans to defer the preliminary design review of its Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) until around mid-2009 as it contends with key decisions such as the final choice of material for the thermal protection system.
Longer duration firings of the high-energy laser onboard the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Boeing 747 Airborne Laser (ABL) will begin in October-November following the initial, brief “first light” firings onboard the aircraft in ground tests at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
The first flight of Boeing’s 787, targeted for the fourth quarter, is in jeopardy due to a strike now in its fourth day by the International Association of Machinists and Aerosapce Workers (IAM). Boeing had nearly completed the assembly of test aircraft ZA001, and was on track to hold to its last quarter milestone when the machinists walked out Sept. 6. No significant near-term activity is planned on the first flight test aircraft or the three others in the 787 factory in Bldg. 40-26 in Everett, Wash.
