Crash damage? NO! Normal it turns out!

I made this page trying to figure out what was going on with the tilt, THEN I found the FAQ Sticky thread at HeliFreak about it... so now I know this is done on purpose to counter the tendency for the heli to lift to the left from the motor torque. On a FP heli you have some right cyclic applied by the tilt of the main shaft for you automatically, so it doesn't slide left on lift-off.

While looking the heli over, I noticed today that it looked strange, but I couldn't tell what was crooked. I still am not sure what exactly is at fault, but it seems to me that the motor and shaft and main gear as well as the rotor and blades are all tilted in the frame.

When viewed from behind, the top of the shaft tilts to the right, while the bottom of the shaft tilts to the left.

I would expect this to cause the heli to slide to the right, but it wanted to go left, and I have the trim pretty far to the right to compensate.

Here are some pics. In these, you can see the main gear is tilted in relation to everything else, except the motor which is in line with the shaft and gear...

The shaft looks tilted to the right to me in these pics...

Here is a pic with the heli upside down and the landing skids removed. When looking down the tail boom, and lining that up with the 2 mount holes for the landing skid, the shaft and gear appear tilted...

Here is a pic from below, it might tell something to someone who knows what they are looking at...

A view upside down from the front of the heli...