A HUNT supporter had his head cut in half when he tried to stop a gyrocopter flown by an anti-hunting pilot from taking off, a court heard yesterday.

Paul Nichol, from Balloch, Inverness, died when his gyroplane came down in a field ... they were trying to understand what led to the rotor head to separate while in flight. In an update on ...

A two-week trial heard that Mr Morse's head was cleaved "from top to bottom" by the rear rotor of the gyrocopter as he tried to stop it from taking off. Mr Griffiths, 55, left court without ...

Tuesday's fatal gyroplane crash in Highlands County has raised questions about the aircraft at the center of the tragedy. The aircraft goes by several other names: a gyrocopter, an autogyro or a ...

DLR operates the AutoGyro Cavalon D-MGTD to research the flight dynamics of gyrocopters. A gyrocopter uses the airstream to rotate its rotor blades and thereby generate lift. In contrast to ...

The UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the crash happened after the gyroplane's rotor head separated from the rest of the machine. But the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft ...

Jaunt's 21st century gyrocopter uses a free-spinning rotor in forward flight, ... The gyro predates the helicopter, having been invented in the early 1920s and used throughout the ’30s and ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A gyrocopter that crashed into a canal near Selby probably still had its rotor brake on, an air accident investigation has found.

A light aircraft was seen "descending rapidly" with its rotor head and blades separate from the rest of the machine moments before a fatal crash last year. Paul Nichol, from Balloch, Inverness ...