Hrm, well it would seem something odd is going on indeed.
Sorry about pic quality (and my soldering, its been a while) You can see though none of the pads are touching.

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I removed the motor, applied black to negative and white to positive on a AA battery and the blade rotated the correct way, (CCW)
Picture of under side

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It matches the Wiki based documentation
Ok, so i cant find my solder wick or pump and after much messing about, decided to just stick the wires on the top side... though
backwards to the doco.
With that, it now hovers... kinda - Im on Win764bit + PS3 controller + MotionJoy so suffering those setup issues.
Anywho, what do you think?