The autogyro, with its unmistakable silhouette and ingenious simplicity, has long fascinated aviation enthusiasts. The concept attracted pilots interested in the idea of rotary-wing flight without the ...

A gyrocopter instructor in Shelbyville, Indiana, Drake has spent thousands of hours in the air in the small, two-passenger copter he bought 18 years ago, living a dream first kindled when he came ...

A Laguna Beach man who flew a drone too close to a gyrocopter, a blimp advertising “Shark Week,” and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter received one year of probation in federal court in Santa Ana on ...

James Ketchell had reached the halfway point in his bid to become first person to circumnavigate the world in the aircraft. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

The dunes and dry lakes of California’s Mojave Desert are spawning a new set of recreational hobbies. Dune buggies churn up sand cliffs, sand boats sail across the flats at 60 m.p.h., and now the ...

Two Austrian men stepped into a pair of gyrocopters Thursday morning at Springs East Airport in Ellicott and set off on another leg of a cross-country trip that is taking them from Boston to San Diego ...

Charges against Doug Hughes are pending. — -- The pilot of a small helicopter that landed on the West Front lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building was arrested today, nearly a year and a half after ...

You guys might remember the outrageous Gyroplane story we posted a couple of weeks ago about a super-gizmo that flew and drove a guy from his home in Concord, Ca to his workplace in San Jose. After ...

Click to open image viewer. In the early 1980s, David Gittens, a gifted artist and industrial designer, began work on an innovative, low-cost gyroplane that could transport medical personnel and ...

Police say the gyrocopter was flying over Brundee, near Nowra, today when it came down heavily into a paddock on Greenwell Point Road. The sole occupant died at the scene, a NSW police spokesman said.

A Laguna Beach man who flew a drone too close to a gyrocopter, a blimp advertising “Shark Week,” and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter received one year of probation in federal court in Santa Ana on ...