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WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS IN KEENE FOR YOU. A PILOT IS SAFE AFTER A GYROCOPTER CRASH AT THE AIRPORT THERE.
A gyrocopter losing power crash-landed just short of the crosswind runway at the Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport in New ...
Gyrocopter: How the Chopper, Like the One That Landed at the US Capitol, Works. An explanation of the peculiar aircraft that landed near the U.S. Capitol. By ABC News. April 15, 2015, 4:33 PM.
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 ...
Gortney, meanwhile, said the gyrocopter’s “flight parameters fell below the threshold necessary to differentiate aircraft from weather, terrain, birds, and other slow-flying objects so as to ...
Gyrocopter Pilot: What We Know About Him. In total, he faces four years in prison, plus fines. He rarely spoke, but at one point saying his name in a gentle high voice said, "Douglas Mark Hughes." ...
Hughes' gyrocopter sits on the west lawn of the Capitol after he was taken into custody on April 15. Alex Wong/Getty Images He took NPR through the final moments of his flight.
A gyrocopter sits on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol with members of the U.S. Capitol Police nearby April 15, 2015 in Washington, DC. Doug Hughes, 61, from Ruskin, FL., landed the gyrocopter on ...
The Florida postal worker who landed a gyrocopter on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in April to call attention to government corruption pleaded guilty Friday to flying without a license.
The Florida postal worker who landed a gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol last month pleaded not guilty to all counts Thursday and announced he would take his fight for campaign ...
Letter From Florida ‘Gyrocopter Guy’ Still Has a Message to Deliver. Two years after his infamous landing, he is grounded, but determined to get big money out of politics.
Before landing a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn Wednesday, Doug Hughes wrote about his intentions and the reasons behind them on a website called the thedemocracyclub.org. “The point of the ...