First of all, just what is a gyroplane? Well, it's a small aircraft that has a powered propeller in the rear, along with a non-powered set of rotor blades on top.

As the prop pushes the plane forward, air passes through the rotor blades, causing them to spin and produce lift. It's sort of like a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane.

Among the selling points of gyroplanes are the facts that they're relatively easy to pilot, they can take off and land on very short runways, they remain stable even when flying at low speeds, and because they're small and essentially wingless, they take up little storage space.