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 two winners of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contest to demonstrate variable-cycle engine technology under its Adaptive Versatile Engine Technologies (Advent) program are to be selected by the end of July, say the contenders who submitted bids by June 1.
Airbus has begun exploratory talks with the General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance over a new powerplant for the A350XWB following the almost certain termination of GE's offering of the GEnx for all variants of the new Airbus twinjet family.
First blood has gone to Rolls-Royce in the battle to develop a new 10,000-lb.-thrust-class turbofan following its selection by Dassault Aviation to power the Falcon super midsize (SMS) business jet. The win over stiff competition from General Electric, Honeywell, Snecma and Pratt & Whitney Canada also gives Rolls-Royce a headstart in the race to fulfill a host of emerging applications in the 6,000-25,000-lb.-thrust market, ranging from light business jets to next-generation single-aisle airliners under study by Airbus and Boeing.
