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.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Guy Norrris (Los Angeles)
Bombardier’s proposed CSeries airliner will benefit from engines with bypass ratios around 10:1, a figure unheard of for a narrow-body airliner and only recently heard of for widebodies. The company says each of the three engines it’s reviewing—from Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney and CFM International—offers such a high bypass ratio. It hopes to choose one of them, or maybe two, by year-end as it works toward a launch decision on the 110- and 130-seat aircraft within 12 months.
Orders for the Boeing 777 have passed the 1,000 barrier with a recent contract by TAM, booked on Aug. 23, for four 777-300ERs. The latest deal, which takes total orders to 1,003 from 52 customers, also means the 777 has reached this milestone faster than any other twin-aisle program, says Boeing. The aircraft was first launched with an order from United Airlines in October 1990, and since entering service in 1995, the fleet has accumulated more than 14.5 million flight hours over more than 3.3 million flights.
Aero-engine makers tread a delicate line. On one hand, they want to shout from the rooftops about steady progress in cutting emissions; on the other, they want to avoid the glare of bad mass-media attention that might label them as scapegoats for aviation’s greenhouse gas contributions.
