A literal fit would be hindsight bias (wikipedia).
Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it.
It's also sometimes phrased as "Hindsight is 20/20," referring to the standard measurement of "perfect" human vision. It's a noun, so it fits your second example smoothly.
Jane experienced a feeling of hindsight bias when she finally completed the puzzle. Of course it was so blatantly obvious she realized she knew how to solve it all along.
I admit this answer is a bit cheeky, because you're looking for something that means they literally knew it all along, whereas hindsight bias is actually saying they didn't know it, only think they should have known it after the fact. As a counterpoint, I offer this: if Jane really knew the solution to the puzzle, why didn't she get it immediately? Or, if you really know this word exists, why did you have to ask the question?
My real point is that human memory is fallible. Just because you think a thing doesn't make it so. It's a fascinating article; I suggest reading the whole thing before you decide any understanding is inevitable. Consider this snippet:
Research shows that people still exhibit the bias even when they are informed about it. Researchers attempts to decrease the bias in participants has failed, leading one to think that hindsight bias has an automatic source in cognitive reconstruction. This supports the Causal Model Theory and the use of sense-making to understand event outcomes. The only observable way to decrease hindsight bias in testing is to have the participant think about how alternative hypotheses could be correct. This makes the participant doubt correct hypothesis and report that they would not have chosen it. However, this only decreases the hindsight bias, and there is not a solution to eliminate it.
For a real word that fits your expectations (or at least, what I think your expectations are), consider inevitable/inevitability:
adjective
1. unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary:
an inevitable conclusion.
2. sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable:
noun
3. that which is unavoidable.
Source: inevitable. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved July 13, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inevitable
Jane experienced a feeling of inevitability when she finally completed the puzzle. Of course it was so blatantly obvious she realized she knew how to solve it all along.
Best Answer
It appears that the different noises produced by helicopers can be pretty complex, and I could not foresee the OP would raise my interest on this topic.
It is sometimes called with the broad and somewhat loose terms "chop chop", choppy or chopping sound, see for instance:
While the "chop" root is loose, I like its similarity with the cut ("to chop"), and "chop chop", rooted in Cantonese, adopted by English seamen meaning "hurry, hurry".
More technical terms exist for their different noises, depending on the of enngine, the manoeuvre, the number of blades, the flight "mode". A more technical SE discussion at The sound of rotating helicopter blades.
[EDIT] Indeed, the "Helicopter sound is rather complex", as mentioned in Frequency Analysis of Helicopter Sound in the AS332 Super Puma, or in Helicopter blade slap, J. of Sound and Vibration, 1966 (a more accurate technical term proposed by @Sven Yargs) which says that:
and
noting that:
Finally, one can find many other onomatopoeic sounds here, for instance: