Originally Posted by
admikar
They do. IIRC, Bell tried to use same concept with 429, but lost in court
You prompted me to search for such a patent and here it is, at least the USA version:
US5860621A - Helicopter landing gear with skids:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5860621A/en
That has apparently since expired.
No claims seem to have been made about reduced risk of fouling wires with such skids. Perhaps I was being too optimistic about that anyway.
But in any case PowerPedal has since explained the Hill reasoning for the forward projection.