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.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will test a modified RL10 engine aimed at improving combustion stability at low thrust settings as part of a NASA contract supporting future lunar lander technology.
NATO’s midterm E-3A AWACS upgrade is poised for full operational clearance, and both its trailblazing progress and emerging network-centric capabilities are being keenly watched by others in the early warning community.
David A. Fulghum (Washington), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Network-centric operations envisioned by the Pentagon continue to defy description, not least because the emergence of new technologies is constantly demanding redefinition of the concept. Predictions about the effectiveness of network-centric warfare span the spectrum from creating a perfect victory to triggering a rapid, cascading collapse.