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 will deliberately try to replicate the vibration that caused a turbine failure in a Joint Strike Fighter engine as part of a critical test targeted at proving a long-term design fix.
The fourth and final Boeing C-17 has been officially delivered to the Canadian armed forces from the company’s Long Beach, Calif. production line. Dubbed the CC-177 by the Canadian Forces, the aircraft will be fitted with Northrop Grumman’s large aircraft infrared countermeasures system at Boeing’s San Antonio, Texas, modification site. Following installation, the aircraft will join the three other Canadian C-17s at the 429 Transport Squadron, based in Trenton, Ontario.
XCOR Aerospace is facing key technical challenges particularly in propulsion and flight control as it seeks to develop the Lynx, a two-seat, suborbital space tourism vehicle aimed at making up to four flights per day.
