Eurocopter’s Blue Edge rotor blade has three flaps added onto the standard design, which “move up and down at 15 to 40 times per second, using piezoelectric motors that also help to reduce the blade-vortex interaction.” Video after the break.

Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction.

[via Gizmodo]

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