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.
The firefighting specialist 10 Tanker Air Carrier is starting work on air tanker components for a second McDonnell Douglas DC-10 conversion, which it plans to introduce into service around May 2008. The company’s first DC-10 tanker is currently on “strip-alert” at its Victorville, Calif., base and so far has flown more than 30 firefighting sorties during the 2007 fire “season,” says 10 Tanker Air Carrier managing partner, Rick Hatton.
The X Prize Foundation and Google are teaming to offer $20 million to the first privately funded team to soft land on the moon and robotically rove the surface for at least 500 meters while sending images and video back to Earth. The winner of the "Google Lunar X Prize" must transmit a specific set of high-definition video, still photo images and data back to Earth, including a "Mooncast" that will include high-resolution 360-degree panoramic views of the lunar surface, "self portraits" of the rover and near real-time videos of the rover's journey.
As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awaits the first full results of a critical Mach 10 test of a potential flow-path design for a global-reach hypersonic cruise vehicle, initial findings indicate positive signs for the inlet design.
