The Windryder is a single-seat autogyro produced by Windryder Engineering Inc of Broomfield, Colorado and the first of two prototypes, known as the Hurricane, flew for the first time in August 1985.

The Titanium Explorer gyrocopter was designed by Neil Sheafer and built at Tamworth, NSW, he being previously the Australian importer for similar in appearance Autogyro Europe gyrocopters imported from overseas.

Rotor Flight Dynamics Inc of Wimauma, Florida has for some years been producing single and two-seat gyrocopters using the patented Dragon Wing Rotor, the Dominator being designed by Ernest Boyette.

The McCulloch J-2 was a two-seat, side-by-side, light autogyro, the prototype of which was flown for the first time in June 1962.

Albert John Fortescue (1870 – 1936) was a member of a family which ran a company G E Fortescue & Sons, which manufactured agricultural implements