Although drones are a good substitute for piloted aircraft in hazardous weather conditions, it's obviously still best for their users if the things don't crash. The Czech-designed ThunderFly TF-G1 ...

Never mind the flying car. It's all about slowed-rotor/compound, according to Carter Aviation Technologies. SR/C is what the Texas company considers the key to a practical, personal transportation ...

Out in the RC Airplane world, there is a great airframe called the Slow Stick. There is not much going on with this plane as it only has the bare necessities, a motor, wing, tail and a fiberglass tube ...

TOMBALL, Texas -- The last thing you want to hear before you climb into an open aircraft with no doors is how cheap it is to fly, but that's the first thing the police chief tells me before strapping ...

Aviation consists of two major groups. Airplane enthusiasts, and helicopter enthusiasts. The two groups rarely get along, each extolling the virtues of their chosen craft. Somewhere in between are ...

With an exposed engine in back and an open cockpit up front, a gyroplane sold by Texas Auto Gyro & Light Sport looks something like a helicopter on a diet. "I'd heard stories about these planes during ...

American Autogyro, is a division of Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (GBA). AA's two-place, enclosed cabin SparrowHawk III Gyroplane is an excellent entry-level, or additional, aerial surveillance ...

Doha: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) launched yesterday the environmental meteorological monitoring system using the autogyro aircraft, and the first flight began from Umm Al ...

Wing Cdr Ken Wallis' son is selling the autogyro given to him by his father, who died last year aged 97 The son of a stunt pilot who flew his self-designed aircraft in a James Bond film has put one of ...

UNUSUAL aircraft are a regular sight at the Farnborough air show, which opened in Britain this week. But the particular unusualness of the Liberty is not so much that it is a flying car, but that ...