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

Guy Norris (Dayton, Ohio)
The first payload for one of the world’s most ambitious hypersonic test projects, the U.S.-Australian HiFire program, is poised for completion and will join the rocket motors for the initial trial that have already arrived at the Woomera range in South Australia.

Michael Bruno (Washington ), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
A quarter of a century and more than $100 billion after President Ronald Reagan pushed for a U.S. missile shield, Missile Defense Agency officials and other advocates assert that the U.S. has a rudimentary capability while major technology advancements are imminent. Congress, meanwhile, seems increasingly likely to go along even as critics have stepped up complaints.

Guy Norris
An industry-academic team from California is claiming what it believes is the first successful flight of a liquid oxygen (LOX)-methane powered rocket engine. The milestone was achieved on April 12, when the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation (GSC) and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)-developed Prospector 14LM (P-14LM) reached an altitude of 5,500 feet after launching from a test site near Mojave, Calif.