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.
The Boeing 787 successfully completed its first flight on Dec. 15, landing at Boeing Field after three hours and 10 minutes. The flight, which began from Everett’s Paine Field at 10:27 a.m., was cut short by encroaching bad weather, which made contact with the chase aircraft hard to maintain visually. Nonetheless, Boeing immediately declared the mission a major success, with initial parts of the flight envelope opened up.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers plan to continue diagnosis of what appears to be a seized up wheel on the already stranded Mars rover Spirit. The new problems with the right hand side rear wheel emerged during operations to try and free Spirit from soft soil where it has been trapped since late April when it broke through an unseen crust covering an old impact crater in an area dubbed “Troy” (Aerospace DAILY, Nov. 13).
Boeing’s stretched 747-8F freighter took major strides toward first flight next month with the start of the aircraft’s General Electric GEnx-2B engines for the first time on Dec. 8., followed two days later with the initiation of control input work in the cockpit by Boeing test pilots. Initial engine start, and the customary white smoke caused by the burn-off of residual lubrication oil (below), coincides with the approach of natural icing test flights for the GEnx-2B mounted on GE’s 747 flying test-bed.
