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

Michael Mecham (Everett, Wash.), Guy Norris (Everett, Wash.)
Boeing is gaining confidence daily that the worst of its final assembly problems are behind it for the 787, but concerns about its power systems and electric brake monitoring controls are potential obstacles to “power-on” and first flight.

Guy Norris (Everett, Wash), Michael Mecham (Everett, Wash)
Boeing will reach the 75% design release point for the upcoming 747-8 freighter this week and is embarking on a major revamp of its 747 production line at Everett to prepare for the start of assembly.

Michael Mecham, Guy Norris
Two systems suppliers -- Hamilton Sundstrand and a Crane Aerospace/GE Aviation team -- are the latest stumbling blocks for Boeing’s 787 flight-test program remaining on track. Attention hasn’t been focused on systems suppliers because parts and management issues among the 787’s airframe makers have been the big reason the program has fallen behind schedule by at least 15 months.