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.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
NASA is gearing up for a major shift in its human spaceflight program as the Obama administration prepares the space policy it believes the U.S. should follow in the coming decades. It will be very different from the “back-to-the-Moon” effort started under President George W. Bush.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Guy Norris (Mojave, Calif.)
On the cusp of what could be a major new aerospace industry, a handful of brash startups are vying with The Spaceship Co. to develop their own vehicles for personal spaceflight. XCOR Aerospace, Blue Origin, Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems are not exactly household names today, but the visionaries working for them believe that in the near future their companies could become the spacecraft equivalents of Boeing and Airbus.
With its sharp-nosed fuselage and sweeping, feathering tails, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) makes for an imposing sight as it comes together in the Scaled Composites facility at Mojave, Calif. Measuring 60 ft. in overall length, the 42-ft.-span clipped delta-wing vehicle merges the proportions of a business jet with the sci-fi look of a Star Wars fighter. Yet there is nothing illusionary about this project or its suborbital ambitions as Scaled workers begin to close up the wing skins and complete the systems installation on the SS2.
