Why do helicopters make a chopping noise instead of a smooth spinning noise?
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The tips of each rotor blade produce vortices that wrap around the tip. The noise, or “blade slap”, is caused when the vortices are struck by the next advancing blade. Most of the noise a helicopter makes is from the tail rotor as it spins much faster than the main rotor.
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