“He pulled it off, he did exactly what he said he was going to do,” Montgomery told ABC News. They deemed him “not dangerous” at the time and it would seem that his plans continued to move forward:īen Montgomery, the Times reporter who first reported Hughes’ bizarre plot, says the mailman-turned pilot planned to fly through restricted airspace to deliver 535 letters, one to each member of Congress, protesting campaign finance laws. It turns out the Secret Service had known about him for two years, although they weren’t alerted today. Luckily the device in his hands just controlled his gyrocopter and Hughes was arrested. What happened was a quick meeting with the cops, the appearance of some “long guns,” and the fear that Hughes was carrying a bomb. Now I would like think that he rolled off the copter as it landed, did a twirl, and introduced himself like he just flew Chitty Chitty Bang Bang into reality.
I’m going to violate the no-fly zone, non-violently,” Hughes said in a video posted on the Tampa Bay Times website today. “I have got a plane, a gyro-plane, and I’m going to fly it. Law enforcement sources said he wanted to draw attention to the issue of campaign finance reform.
Hughes flew a gyrocopter, which he described in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times as a “flying bicycle,” onto the Capitol lawn on Wednesday afternoon. It would seem he had some mail to deliver. He’s a Postal Service worker out of Florida, but he made his impact in DC today by flying his gyrocopter in defiance of The National Mall’s no-fly zone, landing it on the lawn of the Capitol. It was a plan two years in the making and 61-year-old Doug Hughes saw it through from start to finish.
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