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.
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force are in talks over development of a larger, piloted blended wing body (BWB) “X-Plane” demonstrator that would follow-on from the current subscale X-48B unmanned BWB demonstrator now flying at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
In preparation of the upcoming arrival of Airbus A380 services, and to help curb the airport’s notoriety for runway incursions, Los Angeles International (LAX) opened a new 10,000-foot-long center taxiway on June 24. The $83 million taxiway runs between Runways 07L/25R and 07R/25L on the south side of the airfield, where most of the incursions have taken place in the past two decades.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Pratt & Whitney have demonstrated near-instantaneous low-pressure (LP) spool power extraction from a JT15D turbofan as part of the Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine (VAATE) program.
