AirGyro Aviation is a gyro-copter
"You can fly 15 feet off the ground if you want to, and can land on a 15 foot strip," said Joshua Humphreys, company General Manager. Humphreys has two gyro-copters sitting in his hanger at the Spanish Fork Airport.
Humphreys says the cost of the gyro-copter is about 10 percent of what a standard helicopter costs, and the hope is to get them in the hands of sheriff departments who otherwise couldn't afford such a resource.
Yet, the most impressive part could be what they strap to it.
"There's definitely no radar like this that's this tiny, and can see the range that these see," said Joshua Hintze, IMSAR Vice President. IMSAR is a Utah based company that has produced a small and light enough radar to fit on the lightweight gyro-copter. What the radar can do is revolutionary.
