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 ...