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 ...

Pilot is a 61-year-old Postal Service worker from Florida. — -- The pilot of a small helicopter that landed on the U.S. Capitol's West lawn in Washington, D.C., this afternoon has been arrested, ...

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.

An explanation of the peculiar aircraft that landed near the U.S. Capitol. — -- The peculiar helicopter that took flight this afternoon bound for the U.S. Capitol is known as a gyrocopter, a ...

The gyrocopter is the closest thing modern aviation has to a flying car. The miniaturized aircraft can take off and land with very little room and can operate effectively at low-altitude. A used one ...

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 — The Florida postal carrier charged Thursday with two federal crimes for steering his small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace “literally flew under the radar” to the lawn of ...

In Dota 2, players often theorycraft and experiment with new builds on heroes. Sometimes the experimentation falls flat, but other times it works so well that it becomes the ‘new meta’. Gyrocopter’s ...

A British adventurer has become the first person to circumnavigate the globe on a gyrocopter, completing a six-month journey that saw him narrowly escape a lightning strike on Sunday. James Ketchell ...

The aircraft goes by several other names: a gyroplane, an autogyro or a rotoplane -- to name a few. The FAA uses the term gyroplane. So, we will, too. Gyroplanes were invented by Juan de la Cierva in ...

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Wilmington, Delaware, United States, May 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Transparency Market Research Inc. - Rapid increase in popularity of gyrocopters in modern urban mobility is spurring market ...