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.

Articles

By Guy Norris
Bombardier and Lockheed Martin are bracing for delivery disruptions to their respective Q400 and C-130J assembly lines after a massive fire destroyed around 80% of General Electric’s Dowty production site in the U.K. that makes propellers for both models. The fire, which broke out at the Staverton facility around midnight on Feb. 5, gutted the main manufacturing plant at the heart of the Dowty Propellers site that employs around 250 workers. All 29 of the employees who were in the building at the time escaped without injury.

By Guy Norris
Bombardier and Lockheed Martin are bracing for delivery disruptions to their respective Q400 and C-130J assembly lines after a massive fire destroyed around 80% of General Electric’s Dowty production site in the U.K. that makes propellers for both models. The fire, which broke out at the Staverton facility around midnight on Feb. 5, gutted the main manufacturing plant at the heart of the Dowty Propellers site that employs around 250 workers. All 29 of the employees who were in the building at the time escaped without injury.

By Guy Norris
Details of the incident, believed to have involved an Air Force F-16 operating from Jordan during a air-to-surface attack last Nov. 10, remain unconfirmed.
Defense