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

The micro-electronic mechanical gyros are responsible for capturing motion data as an aircraft moves about ... all the information from these different components and conducts complex algorithms ...

Learn more. A Northern Ireland man’s attempt to circumnavigate the globe in an open-cockpit auto gyro aircraft is expected to land him in Maine on Monday. Norman Surplus, 52, set out five years ...