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 (Los Angeles)
Boeing is starting detailed design work on the 747-8 Intercontinental, having completed “firm configuration” based on the same 18-ft. stretch as the freighter. Passing the milestone, the manufacturer also says it has absolutely no plans to offer a shorter version of the stretch to meet the longer range demands of a handful of potential operators such as Emirates.

Guy Norris
Boeing has completed firm configuration of the 747-8 Intercontinental passenger variant but denies it is considering revisiting earlier studies of a shorter stretch to satisfy the longer-range demands of potential customers like Emirates. "The program froze the airplane configuration at a 5.6 meter (about 18 feet) stretch, which is the same length as the 747-8 Freighter (about 250 ft.). That is the only length we will be building. We will not be building a shorter version at this time," says the company.

Guy Norris and Douglas Barrie (Filton, England)
Rolls-Royce is trying to eke out further weight reductions on propulsion elements of the F-35B short takeoff and landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter. The company is finalizing design of a hollow second-stage lift fan rotor for the F-35B which will cut 40 lb. from early production models of the Stovl variant.