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.
NASA plans to begin opening the telescope cavity door on its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia) aircraft in-flight for the first time later this month following the successful completion of a functional check sortie from Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 9.
GRAY BUTTE, Calif. — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems plans to start air vehicle and systems tests of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) first Guardian unmanned aircraft at Point Mugu Naval Air Station, Calif., as early as next week following its formal delivery to the service Dec. 7.
MOJAVE, Calif. — Preparations for the start of captive carriage flight tests of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) are under way following the unveiling of the vehicle in a spectacularly staged event at Mojave, Calif., on Dec. 7. Despite biting winter winds that were gusting to gale force at times, the prototype SS2 was transported to the specially constructed unveiling site at a remote corner of the airfield in darkness beneath the WhiteKnight Two (WK2) mothership, marking its first taxiing captive carry test.
