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.
As Boeing closes on the firm configuration milestone for the 737 MAX later this month, the company has selected BAE Systems to provide the spoiler control electronics. The move to fly-by-wire spoilers is designed to improve handling characteristics, reduce weight and lower maintenance costs, and is one of the few major systems changes for the aircraft family, which is due to enter service in 2017. The control electronics award is BAE’s first win on the MAX, and the company’s first contract since the Partnering for Success program was rolled out by Boeing.
As clearly indicated by the $4.7 billion in new widebody engine deals announced at the Paris air show, Rolls-Royce continues to bank heavily on the higher-value big-engine market. With around half of this newly signed business tied up in aftermarket support and sales of existing products, the company is stepping up its wide-ranging campaign to plow back technology from the latest-generation large turbofans into the rest of the in-service Trent family.
