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’s DC-8 airborne laboratory is wrapping up the first of a series of Antarctic ice-survey missions aimed at better predicting how changes will affect sea levels around the world.
General Electric’s bid to counter Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan is stepping up as it prepares for a second phase of tests of eCore 1, the company’s advanced technology core which will provide the basis for both the next-generation NG34 regional engine and, together with Snecma, the successor to the CFM56.
United’s long-anticipated order for as many as 150 aircraft could be announced in the next 48 hours, say sources familiar with the negotiations. Airbus is considered a front runner for at least part of the order with the A350-900, which would mark the first time United has selected a non-U.S.-made aircraft for its long-range fleet. The only North American operators with orders for the A350-800/900 are US Airways and Hawaiian. The Boeing 787 is considered to be out of the running.
