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.
Michael Mecham (East Hartford, Conn.), Guy Norris (East Hartford, Conn.)
When Stephen Finger returned to Pratt & Whitney as president two years ago, the company was capping decades of research by bringing out its geared turbofan (GTF) design for regional and single-aisle jet engines. Japan has now launched the engine with the 70-90-seat Mitsubishi Regional Jet, and Bombardier has named it to power the 110-130-seat CSeries. Those efforts put the GTF on track for first service in 2013. Pratt is a partner in International Aero Engines, whose V2500 powers the Airbus A320 family.
A U.K. program to upgrade its Boeing E-3D fleet is under review as part of the Defense Ministry’s Planning Round 08. The program, dubbed Project Eagle, was due to enter a technology demonstration phase in the second half of 2007, but funding issues have caused delays. The ministry is trying to finalize Planning Round 08, which covers its spending plans for the next two years, with significant savings needed to be made.
COLORADO SPRINGS — Challenge & Space, the Korean-based rocket maker, is planning to “Americanize” its Chase 10 engine to overcome U.S. State Department roadblocks currently slowing plans for using the motor to power a space tourism project. “We’d like to Americanize the engine, and run it through tests with more U.S. content to eventually make it a U.S.-certified engine,” Challenge & Space (C&S) research engineer David Riseborough says.
