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
Long-serving NASA astronaut, research pilot and U.S. Air Force test pilot Gordon Fullerton died Aug. 21, aged 76.
Space

Guy Norris
Boeing and General Electric are conducting flight tests of a 747-8 to study the buildup of ice crystals in the aircraft’s GEnx-2B engines as part of an investigation into an in-flight icing event on a Russian-operated freighter which damaged three engines.

Guy Norris
Initial tests of the fourth-generation composite fan blade for the GE9X engine destined for Boeing’s 777X have been “very positive,” says General Electric (GE), which is gearing up for a further set of fan module tests later this year. The GE9X was selected earlier this year by Boeing for the 777X derivative over a competing offer from Rolls-Royce, and is due for certification in 2018.
Air Transport