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.
To ensure a smooth production transition from the current A320 to the New Engine Option (NEO), Airbus plans to make parts for the re-engined version at the rate of 44 per month from the start, rather than instituting a gradual build-up. “We have no room for delays and recovery during the cut over from the old aircraft to the new, which is very fast,” says Klaus Rowe, Airbus A320NEO family senior VP.
Pratt & Whitney (P&W) next month expects to start the first test runs of the PW1100G for the Airbus A320NEO following the engine’s official completion Friday in Florida. The event marks a major milestone for P&W’s two decades-long campaign to develop geared turbofan technology for the mainstream single-aisle market. The engine is due to be certified early in the third quarter of 2014 and should power the A320NEO for the first time on its initial test flight a few weeks after that.
Airbus A350 customers have been reassured by the sight of a Trent XWB engine strapped to the wing of an A380 flying testbed. However, to Rolls-Royce this outward display of progress is just the tip of the iceberg as it works on certification and ramping up production of the first flight-test engines for the new twin.
