House oversight chairman says he would have shot down gyrocopter. — -- The pilot of the gyrocopter that landed last week on the West Lawn at the U.S. Capitol “should have been blown out of the ...

There’s actually no “gyro” in the Löopa “gyro bowl,” so the designers’ decision to market it as such is a bit disingenuous, but nevertheless it’s a ...

The gyrocopter that landed on the Capitol grounds wasn't detected as it flew into restricted Washington airspace, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said. Norad spokesman ...

MANKATO — They look like mini helicopters but gyrocopters have some key differences. "The engine pushes it forward and the rotor is driven by the wind, there's no motor on it," said Tom Patterson, of ...

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.