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Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Colorado Springs

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris
Boeing’s 787-3 mid-range variant is under a final threat of extinction following the decision of All Nippon Airways (ANA), the derivative’s sole customer, to change its order to other variants. Commenting on his blog, Randy Tinseth, VP-marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said, “Simply put, getting aircraft into their hands for earlier delivery was a better solution for them. As a result there are no longer any 787-3 orders in the backlog. Going forward, we’ll continue to assess the market viability of the -3.”

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is preparing to start the final integration of its first Falcon 9 launch vehicle following a full-duration orbit-insertion firing of the second stage at its McGregor, Tex., facility.

Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES — Boeing says the Jan. 6 confirmation of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) long-anticipated order for six C-17s, rather than four as previously disclosed, boosts hopes it will sustain the threatened airlifter program through 2012.