To: Cyclic Hotline
You obviously have access to a great deal of technical information so I will ask you without getting involved with Nick Lappos. You indicated that the mast is tilted to the left by three degrees and forward by three degrees which prompts two questions:
1) What is the effect on fuselage attitude when in a hover? I would think it would be left side down by three degrees and tail down by three degrees, What do you think?
2) Why was the transmission tilted to the left? I would think that it is to counter the propeller effect of the tail rotor. What do you think? Like most Sikorsky helicopters the mast is tilted three degree forward and from what I was told in service school it in effect gave the pilot additional forward control. I was also told in service school that the effect in hovering was that the tail would hang down making the nose high. What do you think?