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)
General Electric is launching an advanced “eCore” engine-technology strategy aimed at countering Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan but, along with CFMI partner Snecma, is backing away from its plan to make an open rotor development decision in 2011.

Guy Norris (Plattsburgh, N.Y.)
Pratt & Whitney is formally launching its common core-derived future engine family at the Farnborough air show under the PurePower banner, with the first members being the PW1000G geared turbofan (GTF) and the PW800 business jet engine.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Pratt & Whitney started flight tests of its 30,000-lb.-thrust GTF demonstrator on the eve of the Farnborough show. The sortie kicks off a planned 40 hr. of trials on a company-owned Boeing 747SP testbed and follows 250 hr. of Phase 1 and 2 ground testing that began in November 2007.