For one Texas-based fixed-wing pilot, flying an open-cockpit tandem Autogyro from the front seat over the gorgeous scenery of Scotland turned a basic introductory flight into one of these special ...

The date was 15 August 1934. Thousands of Londoners witnessed this first central London flight of an autogyro. It took off ...

Muller was taken by first responders to Beverly Hospital, where he later died.The autogyro Muller was flying was an AutoGyro Cavalon, which is designed an produced by German aircraft manufacturer ...

Hall argues we had functional flying cars as early as the 1930s. The aviation pioneers Juan de la Cierva and Harold Pitcairn developed an aircraft called the “autogyro” (also spelled ...

A gyrocopter uses the airstream to rotate its rotor blades and thereby generate lift. In contrast to helicopters, the rotor is not moved by an engine, but by the airflow when flying forwards. The ...

Scottish actor Sir Sean sat in the cockpit during the scenes of early take off featuring Q (Desmond Llewelyn), but the plane was actually piloted by wing commander, autogyro proponent and stuntman ...