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 (Palmdale, Calif.)
Boeing will complete assembly of the first X-51A WaveRider static test vehicle over the next two weeks, paving the way for hypersonic flight tests designed to show that the supersonic combustion ramjet is ready for practical application in missiles and space launch vehicles.

Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
Erickson Air-Crane will move its headquarters this week as part of expansion plans that include development studies of a next-generation version of the Sikorsky-designed S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter.

Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) is in development at a time of spiraling costs, uncertain oil prices and growing environmental pressures for airlines. Although studied by Pratt for more than 20 years, the GTF concept came to the fore three years ago when the project was launched to spearhead the revitalization of the company’s commercial engines business. Renamed the PW1000G in mid-2008, the engine is in firm design for initial application on Mitsubishi’s MRJ and Bombardier’s CSeries small-airliner projects.