"Chuck" wrote in message
m...
I was looking through http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/iirform.htm and found
that
a helicopter had an "incident" during takeoff. It says that it became
"nose
heavy" and that the tail rotor struck the ground.

Would this be a typo, or am I just thinking wrong? I would think that if
it
was "nose heavy", the *nose* would hit the ground.

Maybe it was so nose heavy that the rotor came clear up and over and hit the
ground. :-)