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.
General Electric is gearing up for a vital blade-out certification test of the GEnx-1B engine due in late July and has begun building the first modules for the initial ship-set which is expected to fly on the Boeing 787 in the fourth quarter. The test, in which one of the 18 composite fan blades will be released while the engine is running at full power, is one of the last hurdles GE faces before completing certification, “which we’re still tracking toward in the fall,” says GEnx General Manager Tom Brisken.
Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Douglas Barrie (London)
Growth in regional jets and better utilization rates of existing single-aisle transports have taken some of the pressure off aircraft order rates, but Boeing's 20-year outlook remains decidedly bullish for everything it makes.
International Aero Engines (IAE) expects to fire up the last of three V2500 SelectOne ground test engines around June 11 in readiness for the start of flight tests planned later in the third quarter. The upgraded engine forms the next step in IAE's ongoing battle with CFM International for the tightly contested Airbus A320 family market, and is aimed at reducing fuel burn by up to 1%, as well as increasing time-on-wing by as much as 20% at the engine's standard 27,000-lb.-takeoff-thrust rating.
