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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video footage has captured the moment a gyrocopter fell out of the sky before crashing into a field while flying over Bolton. The gyrocopter got into trouble in Greater Manchester shortly before ...