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.
Buoyed by larger numbers of 737 and 787 deliveries, net orders for 235 commercial aircraft and key defense wins, Boeing posted higher-than-expected revenues of $20.5 billion, 8% up on the first-quarter results from last year. With the recent uncertainty over 777X production and union issues now behind it, Boeing Commercial Airplanes increased revenues to $12.7 billion, compared with $10.7 billion in the first quarter of 2013. Deliveries rose in the period to 161, 18 of which were 787-8s.
LOS ANGELES — Boeing’s defense and space units are set for long-term slow growth despite U.S. budgetary pressures, a declining tactical fighter business, greater international competition and the coming closure of the C-17 production line.
LOS ANGELES — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) says the first flight of a reused booster could take place as early as 2015 following encouraging results from the controlled landing into the Atlantic of a modified Falcon 9 first stage on April 18.