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There is any kind of advantage and disadvantages in making the blades of a helicopter off-center?

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There is any kind of advantage in making the blades of a helicopter off-center?

So, english isn't my first language, so I probably couldn't find any kind of information about it due to not being able to define what I'm asking.

Anyway, helicopter blades are normally like this:

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An "off-center" helicopter blade would be like this:

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I'm quite ignorant about aerodynamics and I couldn't find anything about it, so I hope someone here knows if a design like that would have any kind of advantages whatsoever.