Guy Norris

Senior Editor

Colorado Springs

Summary

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.

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Articles

Guy Norris (Seattle), Michael Mecham (Seattle)
Barring last-minute hold-ups, Boeing’s long-delayed 787 flight-test program is poised to begin within weeks, possibly before the end of the Paris air show itself.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
The first Boeing 787 is undergoing a last phase of intensive ground simulation, or “gauntlet,” work before it starts taxi tests and revs up for the long-anticipated first flight.

Guy Norris
Scaled Composites is increasing the tempo of test flights of the WhiteKnight Two (WK2) mothership for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two (SS2) space tourism vehicle as it prepares to fly the carrier aircraft for its first long-distance flight to Las Cruces, N.M., next week.