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 (Los Angeles)
Northrop Grumman’s takeover of leading-edge aerospace design company Scaled Composites was so low on Wall Street’s radar that not a single analyst even raised a question over the acquisition at a July 24 financial-results conference, just four days after the news first broke.

Guy Norris
Leading U.S. aerospace industry and Air Force researchers and developers are stepping up calls for the creation of a dedicated reusable “X” vehicle to demonstrate sustained hypersonic flight performance, which they say is pivotal to the development of real-world, deployable systems.

Guy Norris
Flight demonstrations of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Falcon hypersonic test vehicle could be closer to reality. Successful tests of a rocket-boosted scramjet in Australia and good results from thermal protection system work in the U.S. are bolstering prospects for the next steps in this ambitious hypersonic plan.