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.
German researchers hope the upcoming flight test of an ambitious hypersonic demonstrator will pave the way for follow-on flights of a small sub-orbital reentry vehicle in 2020.
SAN FRANCISCO — Inspectors for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will know by May whether Kakuda Space Center (KSPC), the research group’s leading site for rocket engine development, will require major refit work following the devastating earthquake which struck northeast Japan in March.
Despite reports to the contrary, Boeing says it has no plans to announce in June the launch of an all-new model to replace the 737 or a decision to re-engine its best-selling twinjet. Instead, the company says those expecting a dramatic new program unveiling at this year’s Paris Air Show will have to make do with “more clarity on which direction we are leaning.” However, if the signs of the last nine months are anything to go by, the trend continues remorselessly toward an all-new 737 replacement aimed at entering service in 2019-20.