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A Florida man landed his gyrocopter on the west front lawn of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, alarming security and captivating the Twitterverse. The pilot landed his ...

After two weeks of closed-door briefings and mounting questions on how a postal worker from Florida was able to land his gyrocopter on the Capitol's west front unharmed, lawmakers finally got the ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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 arraigned in D.C. federal court on Thursday ...

WASHINGTON — The Florida postal carrier charged Thursday with two federal crimes for steering his small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace “literally flew under the radar” to the lawn of ...

The gyrocopter that was about to make a big splash with an unannounced landing on the lawn of the Capitol appeared on radar as a tiny dot as it made its way south from Gettysburg. Nobody noticed. The ...

The aircraft goes by several other names: a gyroplane, an autogyro or a rotoplane -- to name a few. The FAA uses the term gyroplane. So, we will, too. Gyroplanes were invented by Juan de la Cierva in ...

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 ...