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.
Robert Wall (Toulouse and Seattle), Guy Norris (Toulouse and Seattle), Guy Norris (Toulouse)
As airlines clamor for more efficient aircraft, Airbus and Boeing are digging deep into their research and technology bases to see what new ideas may be nearing prime time. Strong candidates include active laminar flow control technologies and fuel cells. Both companies have already performed a series of laboratory and flight tests in these areas, and the coming years should see another burst of activity as engineers try to mature these technologies for commercial application.
Rolls-Royce is partnering with British Airways to test and demonstrate “credible and sustainable” alternative aviation fuels, and will issue a request for proposals for candidate fuels to oil companies and other development agencies this month. “We want to do a very serious, good scientific study, and we’re asking anyone with a credible aviation fuel to take part in this program,” says Ric Parker, director of research and technology.
Following the signing of a Space Act agreement earlier this year, General Electric and NASA Glenn Research Center are teaming on a wind-tunnel test program to evaluate open rotor counterrotating fan-blade systems. Tests of a one-fifth scale blade set will begin late this year and continue into mid-2009, says GE’s Ted Ingling. Using scaled versions of the original configurations developed for the GE36 unducted fan (UDF) of the 1980s as a starting point, the program will begin by comparing measured results with modern analytical techniques.
