
Vehicles · Built from a recipe
Helicopter
A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 449.6 Hz.
A helicopter lifts itself with a big rotor on top: its long blades are thin, spinning wings.
- Shelf
- Vehicles
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 449.6 Hz, 37 cents sharp of A4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1450 Hz
- 2658 Hz
- 3691 Hz
- 4870 Hz
- 5909 Hz
- 6955 Hz
- 71070 Hz
- 81138 Hz
- 91157 Hz
- 101224 Hz
- 111270 Hz
- 121367 Hz
- 131372 Hz
- 141402 Hz
- 151454 Hz
- 161493 Hz
How to play
Tap to take off; tap again to land.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Take off or land | Tap | ||
| Fly | Switch | Off | |
| Color | Color | #e8452c |
About it
A helicopter lifts itself with a big rotor on top: its long blades are thin, spinning wings. By tilting the blades, the pilot can fly up, down, forward, backward or sideways, or hover in one place. The small rotor on the tail stops the body from spinning around the other way.
Its rotors are always turning. Tap to take off: it lifts into the air, tips its nose down a little and hovers, bobbing gently. Tap again to land. Pick its color in the Splash tab. Helicopters can land in places planes cannot, so they are used for rescues at sea and in the mountains.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 700,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Helicopter Flyby / Pass (helicopter-chop.mp3) | mil0001 | CC0 1.0 |



