A Student Pilot Asked Me Today Whether Planes Actually Need Both Wings, and I Genuinely Could Not Tell if He Was Joking

Siobhan O’Donnell’s diary on flight instruction and the occasional deeply concerning question

He was not joking. We had a considerably longer conversation about basic aerodynamics than either of us expected going into that lesson. He’s actually a promising student otherwise, genuinely careful and attentive, which makes the wing question all the more baffling in hindsight. Further diary entries continue at bohiney.com, with the original piece live at prat.uk.

SOURCE: https://prat.UK/