Ok, so a week ago me and my friend went walking around Torrance Airport (KTOA). They have an SNJ-5 Texan parked there, so we went and checked it out. He then noticed a long pointy tube with a red cover coming out of the right wing and wondered what it was. I quickly pointed out the it was a pitot tube.

A few days later he tells me that he watched the History channel, and said that it was a "lighting rod," lol. Needless, we got into a long argument about what it was. I know it was a pitot tube, but since he's huge WWII plane fan, he knows it's a lighting rod.

I asked him why a lightning rod would have a cover on it, and he hesitates, and then says "to keep it from getting rusty." Lulz. Better keep that lightning rod from getting clogged as well.



Is it a lightning rod?