Abstract: An aircraft includes a body having a fuselage and a wing assembly, a main shaft supported for rotation with respect to the body about a rotor axis, and a blade assembly coupled to the main shaft for corotation therewith. The blade assembly includes a rotor hub and a plurality of blades circumferentially spaced about the rotor hub. Each blade is coupled to the rotor hub for rotation about a respective blade axis. The aircraft includes a pitch control system coupled to the blade assembly to rotate each blade about the respective blade axis. The pitch control system includes a slider, a swashplate, a first actuator coupled to the slider, and a second actuator operable to rotate the swashplate assembly with respect to the slider.

Abstract: An energy management system for a localized community serviceable by a power equivalent of no more than about 100 MW of electrical energy. The system and techniques thereof are directed at managing allocations of total available energy generated at the localized community as between current use and storage. Further, the management of the energy is enhance through a variety of optimizations (e.g. optimizers) that may be applied to a variety of different, polygenerating energy-types available to the community.