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

Guy Norris
Test officials are trying to figure out why the final flight of a hypersonic weapon technology demonstrator ended in failure after less than one minute of flight over the Pacific, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency says.

Guy Norris
Boeing officially began assembly work yesterday on the first 777 freighter, the sixth major model in the twinjet family, with the start of fabrication of one of the main wing spars now ‘loaded’ onto a production tool.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
The U.S. Air Force, particularly Air Force Special Operations Command (Afsoc), is following with interest work to reduce the drag of Lockheed Martin C-130s. The endeavor is indicating a significant fuel-saving potential from a relatively minor strake modification.