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.

Articles

Guy Norris, Douglas Barrie
Rolls-Royce is about to begin test runs of a new open rotor rig aimed at evaluating noise performance as a first step toward development of a full-scale demonstrator. The company’s “Rig 145” open rotor test rig is being installed in a low-speed wind tunnel run by DNW, a joint facility established by the German Aerospace Center DLR and the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Boeing is poised to start tests of the 777 Freighter using a redesigned, centralized flight test approach in preparation for an unprecedented surge of new and derivative models including the 787, 747-8 and 767-200 Special Freighter.

Guy Norris
VICTORVILLE, Calif. – Boeing is beginning an intensive flight-test period in its A160T Hummingbird rotary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program with upcoming evaluation of stub wings, a two-speed transmission and a revised flight control system.