BP,
If you dont like reading about it or thinking it through, you dont have to. Great Pics by the way - very jealous of your flying!!
NR Fairey,
Your Q has been well and truly answered here, but I like the response of the first person you asked who attributed the nose drop to gyroscopic precession. Does that mean a nose up when you roll the other way, or does it mean nose up on all French/Russian helicopters when they are turning?
Log that puppy on to Pprune for a good spanking will you?