In 1923, Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva came up with a rather revolutionary idea: an aircraft that could use an unpowered ...

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 ...

Dr. Daniel Todd started with a few fixed wing aircraft flight lessons but switched to flying a gyroplane after learning about its unique design and flight characteristics. Faced with some unwanted ...

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 ...