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.
Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
For four years, Boeing has had the happy task of reporting record orders for the 787, the 21st century’s first commercial jet and one that sent rival Airbus scrambling to launch a worthy competitor. Now it’s the U.S. manufacturer that is scrambling, admitting that first flight and deliveries of the 200-300-seat long-haul Dreamliner will be six months late.
Pratt & Whitney is starting detailed design work on the first production version of its geared turbofan family after a pivotal victory in the engine selection competition for Mitsubishi’s new regional jet project.
Research is underway in the Advent program on a new generation of combat engine with supersonic capability and long endurance. Work is starting on two engine-core demonstration rigs that the U.S. Air Force hopes will ultimately pave the way for progress in supersonic-capable propulsion technology as dramatic as the leap from the turbojet to the turbofan.
