The Bensen B-8M Gyrocopter looks more like a garden chair bolted to an engine than a real aircraft, yet it became one of the most influential homebuilt flying machines ever created. Built from simple ...

The pilot of a gyrocopter that crashed in a Colorado neighborhood earlier this month died five days later, according to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report containing new details about a gyrocopter crash in ...

After two weeks of closed-door briefings and mounting questions on how a postal worker from Florida was able to land his gyrocopter on the Capitol's west front unharmed, lawmakers finally got the ...

The gyrocopter that was about to make a big splash with an unannounced landing on the lawn of the Capitol appeared on radar as a tiny dot as it made its way south from Gettysburg. Nobody noticed. The ...

The Florida man who pleaded guilty to a felony after landing a gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol last year began serving his 120-day sentence in a Florida prison on Tuesday. He granted ...

Doug Hughes flies his gyrocopter in March near the Wauchula Municipal Airport in Wauchula, Fla. (James Borchuck/The Tampa Bay Times via AP) Doug Hughes lives in Ruskin, Fla. When I return to ...

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 ...

The Florida man who landed a gyrocopter on the U.S. Capitol lawn in April pleaded guilty on Friday to operating an aircraft without a pilot’s license. Douglas Hughes, 62, was charged with the felony ...