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Old 22nd Dec 2016, 21:12
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Nubian - you seem very quick to blame the pilot without being able to assess the conditions of the day.

A helicopter fuselage will tend to weathercock into wind - fine if you have decent airflow over the length of the fuselage but not at slower speeds. An aircraft with a bigger tail assembly (tail boom and fin) would be better but the Robbie has very little windage aft of the rotor mast.

Why else did they attach a drogue to the tail other than to try and keep it straight?
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