teetering is right. In bits I think! Doesn't the Black Hawk hang left wheel low?
The Black Hawk is significantly tail low in the hover due to the built in forward mast tilt for better forward flight attitudes. Interestingly, the tail rotor is tilted 20 degrees or so, and subsequently provides just under 2.5% of the lift in the hover! (memory is a shakey thing, so please call these figures if I missed them)
In the Thunderstruck video, the "severe" landing is a very poorly executed low viz style landing used for dust ops. Landing on the tailwheel is for aerodynamic braking which uses the tail wheel on the ground as a pivot point and the rearward tilted rotor thrust to rapidly slow the aircraft. That is why it's good for dust landings, and good for tactical landings to slow quickly.
teetering: A huey almost gets to the ground quicker because it is slowing from such an enourmous forward speed in the first place!!!!
