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 is speeding up clearance tests of a follow-on F135 engine to try to minimize delays to the planned first flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35B. The scramble follows a turbine failure in the engine originally destined to power the short takeoff/vertical landing (Stovl) variant.
Investigations into the original third-stage low-pressure turbine failure of the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine on Aug. 30, 2007, revealed a blade fatigue issue caused by the flow field from the stator ring immediately upstream. The uniform spacing of the stator vanes set up a wave pattern, the amplitude of which caused uneven stress on the LP blades, which vibrated as a result.
ACCIDENT REPORT: A preliminary report into the explosion that killed three Scaled Composites workers during development tests of the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) rocket engine last July points to oxidizer tank failure as a potential cause. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (Cal/OSHA) bureau of investigation, which delivered the preliminary report Feb. 7, also submitted evidence for review to the Kern County district attorney’s office, which is deciding whether to press criminal or civil charges against Scaled.
