Day: February 7, 2025

L3Harris Workhorse, the FVR Quad, has Yaw Authority

The FVR platform is certainly an impressive accomplishment. According to its maker, “The FVR is designed for long endurance, 12 to 18 hours, with an 8 to 22 pound payload capacity.”(https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/fvr-90-airframe) According to the patent, large quad platforms are great at their VTOL thing, but have little yaw authority. To make a quad more agile, L3Harris came up with a solution: orient propellers at an angle to the horizontal. This way, you can have a […]