Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Judith Marie Gallman

Eric Stephen Loos

Robert Francis Talbert

One example includes a passive rotor pitch control system. The system includes a counterweights that are each associated with one of a respective plurality of rotors and can be arranged to have a center of mass configured to provide a pitch torque about a pitch axis associated with the respective one of the rotors in response to rotation of the rotors about a rotation axis. The system also includes a spring forcer comprising a pitch rod and a spring configured to provide a spring force on the pitch rod. The system further includes a pitch change assembly coupled to the counterweights and the pitch rod. The pitch change assembly can be configured to rotate a pitch of each of the rotors from a first pitch state to a second pitch state in response to a sum of pitch torques associated with the counterweights being greater than the spring force.

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Judith Marie Gallman