I'm doing an independent study with some of my friends and we're trying to think of what to build. We're all aerospace engineering majors, well most of us, and want to do an independent study related to our major. One guy suggested we try building a plane with an "X" wing. He described it as a plane with two wings perpendicular to eachother. Our whole group agrees that we have never seen this before and we don't think it really exists. If this is true, why doesn't it exist? Why won't such a wing design work? The guy who proposed the idea said that the advantages of having such a design would mean that the plane wouldn't have to bank to turn.

Any ideas to help us?




P.S. I'm a total beginner to r/c planes and aerospace engineering so try to explain in layman's terms please.