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 (Seattle), Andy Nativi (Seattle), Guy Norris (Seattle)
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft is nearing completion, incorporating several design changes that should help it meet its range requirement. The modified 737 is facing some weight-target “challenges,” concedes a program official, adding that the first aircraft won’t be weighed for several months when the mission system is installed. However, one industry official says the aircraft might be at risk of missing its key performance parameter—a 1,200-naut.-mi. range and 4-hr. on-station time.
Strong endorsement by the U.S. Defense Dept. is bolstering Lockheed Martin’s multinational F-35 after it achieved a critical flight milestone last week. However, the company is facing a loss of support for its F-22 after the program’s top two champions were ousted from the Pentagon’s inner circle.
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander team is poised to begin its main science mission, having successfully broken down the clumps in the Martian soil sample that up until now threatened to prevent analysis from taking place. The breakthrough occurred unexpectedly June 11, on the seventh and final attempt to vibrate the sample, which could not be filtered through the 1-mm holes in the screen to the collecting Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) oven (Aerospace DAILY, June 10). Clumpy soil
