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.
General Electric will modify a Boeing 747-400 into a new flying testbed as part of a plan to upgrade its test facilities in preparation for Leap-X and other next-generation engines. The former Japan Airlines aircraft, acquired in December 2010, will be extensively modernized and refurbished under a $60 million plan announced by GE on Feb. 24. The 747-400, powered by GE CF6-80C2 engines, will replace the current Boeing 747-100 flying testbed. The former Pan Am 747-100 is the oldest version of the 747 still flying in the U.S. and the fifth-oldest in the world.
Breaking into the tightly contested inflight entertainment (IFE) business is a tough challenge, but gaining qualification so systems can be installed on the aircraft assembly line rather than retrofitted may be even harder.
FAA is set to accelerate the training of air traffic controllers as the agency nears completion of a nationwide simulator deployment program. The final four MaxSim training systems, developed by simulation specialists Adacel, will be installed at sites around the U.S. by the end of this year as part of a concerted effort to ramp up controller hiring and training. The FAA currently has 14 systems at its Oklahoma City training academy and 22 others at or near major U.S. airports, including the Hawthorne facility close to Los Angeles International (LAX).
