Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ko te tangata o Florida i rere. i te gyrocopter iti i mua o Washington, DC, nga tohu o te wiki kua hipa. i kii ia i tino tumanako ia kia hopukia. i mua i te taunga ki te marae uru o te US Capitol. Ko Douglas Mark Hughes, 61, i whakawehi i te ahuru i tana takahi i te rohe rererangi a motu, a, i whakaoho i te arotake ahuru katoa i Washington. Ko Hughes, he kaikawe mēra o te US Postal Service, i whakaahua i tana rerenga i tana taenga mai ki te kāinga i Ruskin, Florida, i te ata o te Rātapu. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. I kōrero a Doug Hughes, 61, mai i tōna kāinga i Ruskin, Florida, i muri i tōna taenga mai mō te here whare i mua i tōna rā whakawa. I whakahaeretia e ia tana gyrocopter kotahi-tangata ki runga i te West Lawn o te US Capitol i te Wenerei, Paenga-whāwhā 15, 2015. Ko Doug Hughes e tuku ana i ngā tapanga wāhitau ki te haurua o ngā reta 535 ki te Kaunihera i whakamātau ia ki te tuku i te tīmatanga o tēnei marama. I kī a Hughes ki ngā kaipūrongo i waho o tōna kāinga: 'I whakaaro ahau ka tūtohutia ahau i te ara.' I mahara ia he makariri ake i tana i whakaaro ai i te rere atu. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ki DC, i reira te tirohanga o te. I āwhina te Washington Monument ki te ārahi i a ia ki ngā wāhi o te Capitol. Ko ētahi o ngā tāngata i raro nei i ngingio ki a Hughes, nāna i whakaaro te rere hei whakahe hei whakaatu i te hiahia mō te whakahou i te pūtea o te pakanga, i a ia e rere ana i runga i te National Mall. Ka mea ia: 'Kāore te iwi i mataku rawa. 'Ko taua wāhanga o taua mea he mea tūturu.' I tūmanako a Hughes ki te whakapiki ake i te māramatanga ki te mana o te moni nui i roto i te tōrangapū mā te takahi i te ture ki te tuku i ngā reta 535, kotahi mō ia mema o te Kaunihera. Engari, ko te arotahi nui o ngā pūrongo e pā ana ki ngā ārai i whakakitea e ia i roto i te haumarutanga ā-motu. I kii ia ki te Associated Press: 'He nui ake o taatau raru i tenei whenua i te awangawanga mena he kaha te ahuru o te rohe o DC. 'Me āwangawanga tātou ki ngā pūtea nui e haere ana ki te Kaunihera. E rua ngā whārangi o te karere ki te Kaunihera, me aro atu rātou ki te take, OK, o te kaupapa whakahoutanga o te pūtea pakanga me te pono me te kāwanatanga kia mahi ai rātau mō te iwi. I rere a Hughes i roto i te rohe rererangi ārai i te kawe...
I tū a Doug Hughes i tētahi gyrocopter i runga i te marae o te US Capitol i te Rāapa. He maha nga whakapae i whakawakia ai ia, ā, kei te herehere ia ki te whare tae noa ki te rā o te kōti. E rua tau a ia e whakamahere ana i tētahi mahi hei whakahe i ngā ture pūtea pakanga. Ka tae ki te kooti i te 8 o Mei, ā, ka pā atu ki te whā tau ki te whare herehere. I whakaaro a Hughes ka taea e ia i muri i tana wehenga atu i Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.