The wife of a mailman from Florida, who landed a gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday in an effort to creatively deliver a message about money in politics, said Friday that her husband is a "patriot." Alena Hughes said
A gyrocopter caused a panic when it landed near the U.S. Capitol today, and Senator Lindsey Graham doesn't know why it wasn't shot out of the sky.
Well, I'm making an assumption based on the video footage, but it appears that this aircraft is classified by the FAA as a gyrocopter. A gyrocopter cannot quite launch straight up into the air in the manner of a typical helicopter; it requires a short
(WJCL) — The bizarre incident involving a gyrocopter landing in front of the U.S. Capitol grounds this week involved a pilot familiar to local rotorcraft flyers. 61-year-old Doug Hughes flew over Washington D.C. in a gyrocopter before eventually
A 61 year old mailman from Florida flew a USPS adorned gyrocopter onto the Capitol lawn yesterday. He came in low over northeast D.C. around 1:20pm and then turned by the Washington Monument and flew right up the