An explanation of the peculiar aircraft that landed near the U.S. Capitol. — -- The peculiar helicopter that took flight this afternoon bound for the U.S. Capitol is known as a gyrocopter, a ...

WASHINGTON D.C. is the nation's city, a place where residents and tourists alike leisurely stroll the grassy stretches near the White House and the U.S. Capitol. But a Florida mail carrier's landing ...

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz had harsh words on Wednesday for postman Doug Hughes, who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace last week and landed it on the ...

The man arrested for illegally landing a gyrocopter on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington has rejected a plea deal that would have put him in prison for several years. Douglas Hughes said ...

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 ...

Ruskin, Florida—Two years ago this week, Douglas Hughes, a slender, bespectacled mailman, age 61, climbed aboard a one-man flying machine called a gyrocopter on the narrow runway of a small airport in ...

The manned gyrocopter that landed on the Capitol grounds earlier this month was picked up by government sensors set up to protect the capital from air threats, the top commander of North American air ...