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.
It's been a tough trail to blaze, but this December, as Boeing marks the third anniversary of the first flight of the 787, the evidence suggests the twinjet program has officially turned a corner. Production is stepping up smoothly and is now halfway toward a target of 10 per month by the end of 2013; assembly is underway of the first 787-9; deliveries are accelerating and, most important, the aircraft has been well accepted by airlines and passengers alike.
Boeing says electrical system problems that caused the crew of a United Airlines 787 to divert to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Dec. 4 were triggered by the failure of one of the aircraft’s six main electric generators.
Boeing has sent a team of engineers to inspect a United Airlines 787 that diverted to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Dec. 4 after experiencing a suspected system malfunction during a flight from Houston to Newark Liberty International Airport.