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.
As part of the growing trend toward more affordable, unmanned X-planes, Boeing’s distinctive X‑48B blended wing body (BWB) follows the well-traveled path of other subscale, unconventional proof-of-concept UAV demonstrators such as X‑36, X-45 and X-47.
Hovering virtually invisibly and inaudibly against the background noise in the hot and dusty air of Iraq are some of the most remarkable and curious-looking unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) sent to war. Resembling a cross between a coffee maker and small beer keg, the Honeywell-developed, ducted-fan micro air vehicle (MAV) has been deployed to save lives from the danger of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Service entry of SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the planned commercial space tourism vehicle being developed by the Scaled Composites/Virgin Group’s Spaceship Co., could be further delayed following the July 26 explosion that ripped apart rocket-engine components during a test at Scaled’s Mojave, Calif., headquarters.
