Rotary wing aircraft with a multiple beam tail

A rotary wing aircraft with a longitudinal axis in x-direction comprising at least:

• a fuselage forwardly oriented relative to the longitudinal axis with a port side and a starboard side as lateral sides,
• a main rotor arranged above the fuselage,
• a tail rotor mounted on a tail, the tail being attached to a rearward oriented part of the fuselage, the tail having a rear end supporting the tail rotor, and
• at least one engine for driving at least one of the rotors, the engine being mounted on the fuselage;
• wherein:
• the tail is provided with two beam boom elements extending to the rear end of the fuselage, one of the two beam boom elements extending to the port side and the other beam boom element extending to the starboard side, a front root end of each of the two beam boom elements being respectively attached to the corresponding port or starboard side of the fuselage by a front attachment, the beam boom elements being canted with respect to the longitudinal axis and interconnected to each other at the rear end of the tail;
• and
• at least one of the front attachments is releasable and at least the other of the front attachments is pivotable, so that the tail is pivotable about a z-direction, around at least one of the front attachment.