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 installed bases age, and the pressures to cut fuel burn mount, engine makers are mining ever deeper into their technology stockpiles to develop new upgrades and keep existing customers on their side. For Rolls-Royce, the process of developing one-off enhancement performance (EP) packages has gradually morphed into a broader initiative of continuous improvements across the family lineup, ranging from out-of-production RB211-524s to the latest Trent 900/1000 and yet-to-be-fielded Trent XWB.
A lightweight, high-performance composite fan could be crucial to Rolls-Royce's chances of meeting the thrust-to-weight ratio targets set by Boeing for its proposed 777X derivative development.
From the outside, Boeing’s EcoDemonstrator looks like any other American Airlines 737-800, but beneath the skin this is a flying testbed for near-, mid- and long-term technologies the manufacturer hopes will dramatically improve efficiency and safety while reducing noise and fuel burn.
