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

Michael Mecham, Guy Norris
Boeing has confirmed comments by International Lease Finance Corp. Chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy that the 787’s composite center wing box needs redesign, but it is not addressing his larger concern about whether the changes will further delay the program or greatly complicate the chance of producing a larger version to counteract the Airbus A350XWB.

Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney is detailing for the first time a multi-phase technology maturation plan that is aimed at keeping the geared turbofan (GTF) competitive with prospective “open rotor” concepts being studied by GE, Snecma and Rolls-Royce.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
As close relationships in aerospace go, the bond between Mitsubishi’s MRJ and Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) is about as symbiotic as they get. The MRJ needs “game-changing” propulsion technology to help make a market impact, and Pratt needed a launch customer for its geared-fan engine concept.