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

Robert Wall (Toulouse), Guy Norris (Toulouse)
Important tests loom for the new composite-fuselage approach that Airbus has embraced for the A350XWB wide-body transport, with the aim of optimizing design and manufacturing processes.

Guy Norris (Dayton, Ohio)
The U.S. Air Force is looking to ramp up the Falcon hypersonic technology program to include an extra “boost-glide” test vehicle, amid signs of a growing belief within the service that routine air-breathing operations in the Mach 5-plus speed regime could soon be attainable.

Guy Norris
Boeing is looking for a buyer for the 767-400ER airframe originally intended as the prototype for the now cancelled E-10 Multi-Sensor Command and Control Aircraft (MC2A), but in the meantime is using the platform for some flight deck upgrade test work.