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.
After several false starts and the most intensive build-up to the entry of revenue services for any commercial program, including the 747 and 777, Boeing feels as prepared as it can ever be for 787 operations to begin. “The aircraft is certified and going through the first of model testing,” says 787 Services Vice President Mike Fleming, who adds, “It's been a long time coming.”
As some analysts see weakening in air cargo, Boeing's 747-8 Freighter program has been rattled by the cancellation of three airplanes by Atlas Air and a contract dispute over two others with launch customer Cargolux. In a Sept. 16 notification to Boeing, Atlas Air cited “lengthy delays in delivery” and “performance considerations” for canceling the first three of the 12 firm orders it placed in September 2006. President and CEO William J. Flynn told analysts one delivery is set for October and two more in November.
As wrangling continues over the delayed delivery of the first Boeing 747-8F to Cargolux, General Electric is starting assembly of an improved engine designed to narrow the performance-guarantee gap at the heart of the controversy.
