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.
Boeing is officially confirming its North Charleston, S.C., facility as the location for a second final assembly site for the 787, marking the first time it has moved commercial jet assembly out of Washington state. The move follows the breakdown of last-ditch negotiations with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) in Seattle over conditions that would have enabled the line to be placed alongside its existing 787-8 line at Everett, Wash.
Uncertain weather over Kennedy Space Center, Fla., forced NASA to abandon its first attempt to launch the Ares I-X demonstration and test vehicle Oct. 27, so the agency is targeting another attempt Oct. 28. Countdown to launch, originally set for 8 a.m. Eastern time, at one point came within 2 minutes 38 seconds of liftoff until clouds came too close to Launch Pad 39B.
Founded by McDonnell Douglas in the 1990s, before its merger with Boeing, as an answer to Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the Phantom Works has evolved to take on a broader role as the “innovation incubator” for the whole of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, says David Whelan, IDS chief scientist and Phantom Works vice president and deputy general manager.
