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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bensen Aircraft Corp 28 The autogyro, with its unmistakable silhouette and ingenious simplicity, has long fascinated aviation ...
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 ...
A dozen years ago, Norman Surplus was given a 40% chance of surviving 18 months. Today, he’s reaching for the skies in the helicopter’s ‘forgotten cousin’ When Norman Surplus was diagnosed with ...
JACKSON — Power parachuters Stephen and Terry Rastanis, of Walker, realized when the weather was even a bit windy, their hobby often became grounded. But after their first ride in an autogyro less ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Norman Surplus was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer at 40, it was “a body blow”. The prognosis gave him only a 40 per cent chance of lasting for 18 months. He still gets emotional when he ...
A Florida man who flew an autogyro through protected Washington airspace before landing outside the US Capitol last spring was seconds away from colliding with a Delta flight that had taken off from ...