Textron Innovations Inc.

Vince Calabrese

Bryan Kenneth Baskin

Mark Adam Wiinikka

Terry K Thompson

Samantha Renee Lucero

One embodiment includes a swashplate assembly for a rotary aircraft, including: a rotating ring configured to rotate with a drive shaft of the rotary aircraft; a non-rotating ring coupled to the rotating ring and rotationally decoupled from the rotating ring, wherein the non-rotating ring does not rotate with the rotating ring and drive shaft; an outer casing disposed around the gearbox; and an anti-drive mechanism to maintain the outer casing rotationally stationary relative to the gearbox, the anti-drive mechanism including a key and slot system between the gearbox and the outer casing.

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Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Vince Calabrese