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 ...

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA ) Chapter 1252’s annual Flyro Gyro Fly-in and Young Eagle Rally will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sept. 16, at the Lorain County Regional Airport, ...

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 ...

Gyroscopic flight instruments, essential for instrument-rated pilots, are prone to failure, often due to mechanical vacuum or air pump issues (e.g., carbon vane deterioration in dry pumps), which can ...

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 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 ...

During last year’s Geneva Motor Show, a company by the name of PAL-V showed the Liberty, a gyrocopter of sorts that doubles as a car, or the other way around. One year later, it comes back, with ...

Planes on the ground are just as common as planes in the sky. We’ve all seen planes taxiing on the runways or docking at airport gates to load/unload, passengers. But what the wo0rld has never seen is ...