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.
First blood has gone to Rolls-Royce in the battle to develop a new 10,000-lb.-thrust-class turbofan following its selection by Dassault Aviation to power the Falcon super midsize (SMS) business jet. The win over stiff competition from General Electric, Honeywell, Snecma and Pratt & Whitney Canada also gives Rolls-Royce a headstart in the race to fulfill a host of emerging applications in the 6,000-25,000-lb.-thrust market, ranging from light business jets to next-generation single-aisle airliners under study by Airbus and Boeing.
General Electric is gearing up for a vital blade-out certification test of the GEnx-1B engine due in late July and has begun building the first modules for the initial ship-set which is expected to fly on the Boeing 787 in the fourth quarter. The test, in which one of the 18 composite fan blades will be released while the engine is running at full power, is one of the last hurdles GE faces before completing certification, “which we’re still tracking toward in the fall,” says GEnx General Manager Tom Brisken.
Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Douglas Barrie (London)
Growth in regional jets and better utilization rates of existing single-aisle transports have taken some of the pressure off aircraft order rates, but Boeing's 20-year outlook remains decidedly bullish for everything it makes.
