The AutoGyro has come a long way in more than a century of flight. The post The History of Homebuilt Gyrocopters appeared ...

Doug Hughes said he made "every effort" to notify authorities ahead of flight. — -- The Florida mailman who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace and landed on the Capitol lawn last week ...

WASHINGTON — The Florida man who flew his gyrocopter through restricted airspace to land on the U.S. Capitol grounds told federal investigators he feared being "shot down'' but took off anyway to call ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The man who landed a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn pleaded not guilty to six federal charges, including two felonies, during his arraignment in a D.C. courtroom Thursday. Doug ...

Doug Hughes, the Florida man who flew his gyrocopter into Washington, D.C. and landed it on the west front lawn of the Capitol building last month, was formally indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday.

Editor’s Note: Les Abend is a Boeing 777 captain for a major airline with 30 years of flying experience. He is also a CNN aviation analyst and senior contributor to Flying magazine. The opinions ...

A Florida postal worker who piloted his gyrocopter through Washington airspace for 30 miles to land at the U.S. Capitol had weapons aimed at him and "should have been blown out of the air," a senior ...

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RUSK COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - Fifty years ago a lot of people thought that by now we would all be driving around in flying cars. Well, that hasn't happened yet, but there is an aircraft that kind of ...

Doug Hughes called people waving to him as he flew above D.C. "surreal." — -- The Florida mailman who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace and landed on the Capitol lawn last week said ...

A rendering of what Myrtle Beach police’s new gyrocopter could look like when it arrives. Courtesy city of Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach Police will purchase a gyrocopter with $207,000 in drug seizure ...

Florida postman Doug Hughes made headlines last month for landing his gyrocopter on the lawn in front of the Capitol building. In an interview with NPR, Hughes said he "made every effort to send word ...