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
Boeing is expected to formally reveal on Sept. 5 whether it expects the first flight of the 787 to slip into October, but the airframer vows that its priority is to protect the date of May 2008 for first delivery to All Nippon Airways.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Pratt & Whitney is considering a spiral-upgrade plan for its geared turbofan (GTF) that might be enough to convince Airbus and Boeing to accelerate their respective A320 and 737 successor projects by several years.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) will start key tests of a third-generation scramjet combustor in October as part of efforts to advance its goal of powering free-flying hypersonic test vehicles, possibly including later flights of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Boeing X-51 Wave­Rider demonstrator.