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It appears as though the main body of the aircraft is crooked or at an angle???

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It appears as though the main body of the aircraft is crooked or at an angle???

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That is normal for the heli to hover crooked. The full size ones do it too. Watch when they lift off and you will see one skid lift before the other. You may not have noticed it before either because of wind counteracting the lean or you were paying attention to flying. You probably noticed it now because your senses were heightened on the first flight after a near crash. Normally people don’t notice this because they have grown so use to it while they were learning to hover. When you get to doing nose-in hover this crookedness really stands out. Why does it lean? Because of the position of the tail rotor. The center of thrust of the tail rotor is below the center of the main blades. For a clockwise rotating helicopter this offset thrust causes the helicopter to tilt to the left. Just the opposite for a counter-clockwise rotor. You may notice that on some of the full size (and some scale model helis) that the tail is angled up to put the center of thrust from the tail at the center of

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