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.
Intriguing configuration details of the closely guarded Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, the world’s largest all-composite design, are emerging following its unveiling at Scaled Composites’ manufacturing site in California.
MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic is optimistic of starting suborbital flights by late 2010 or early 2011 pending successful flight-tests of the Whiteknight2 (WK2) mothership, which was debuted at Scaled Composite’s facility here earlier this week.
MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic has unveiled the new “mothership” for the vehicle that will take tourists into suborbital space, as well as plans to entice more than just tourists into space. At the July 28 rollout at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson made comments that expand the business’s potential customer base beyond leisure passengers to include payloads and scientific projects.
