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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Tuesday's fatal gyroplane crash in Highlands County has raised questions about the aircraft at the center of the tragedy. The aircraft goes by several other names: a gyrocopter, an autogyro or a ...

WASHINGTON — The Florida man who flew his gyrocopter through restricted airspace to land on the U.S. Capitol grounds told federal investigators he feared being "shot down'' but took off anyway to call ...

Could I, at 57 years old, learn something new? I wasn’t young, but wasn’t old either – so it was the perfect leap to take A few months ago, I asked myself what seemed at the time a simple question: ...

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 ...

Florida postman Doug Hughes made headlines last month for landing his gyrocopter on the lawn in front of the Capitol building. In an interview with NPR, Hughes said he "made every effort to send word ...