aeroplanes

My family has always travelled a lot, and airplane trips were fairly common but still a big deal. I'm not sure why, but I decided that airplane tickets were just about the most expensive things you could buy, costing several thousand dollars. It never occurred to me to wonder why, if they cost so much, we took so many plane flights.

rdawgg

I used to believe that when I saw the smoke trails from jets it meant that it was someone's birthday that day. I seemed possible since every time I was one it just happend to be someones birthday that I knew of. Perhaps becasue I was only paying attnetion when it was someones B-day. It never occured to me that thousands of people are born every day thus share the same B-day.

Anon

I live in Holland and my Aunt always lived in California, I knew you could only get there by plane so I thought that the USA was on the clouds.

Queenie

I used to believe that the reason we had planes was because each state was a planet..why else would you need to fly?

Ellen

I grew up in a smaller city and had no idea what a skyscraper was (you know, the tall buildings, like in New York). I always thought that white trail the planes left in the sky were skyscrapers because it looked like they had scraped the sky!

Sarah

I used to reckon that, because I always went on holiday by plane, all the places I went on holiday were actually floating around in the sky.

St Sauverais

whenever we rode in airplanes, i used to ask my dad if he could arrange to have us land on the clouds. i thought they'd be like soft yet solid mounds of snow; so long as we'd brought our coats with us, we shouldn't get too cold. what's worse is that he said it sounded like a good idea and that he'd try to arrange it for our next flight.

jayt

My grandmother lived in another state and when she came to visit we would pick her up and drop her off at the airport. I believed she lived on the air plane and waved at every plane that flew over.

NUSHQA

I live in an area with a lot of military bases. As kids, my friend once told me that the low roaring sounds we always heard (which I now know to be jet noise) was the sound of earthquakes.

J.

When I was little I always thought when you went to the bathroom on the plane, it just was a hole, and thats why we feel random rain drops sometimes. I used to use the plane potty and run to the window to see if I could see it flying in the sky!! And I cried when I got hit by that random raindrop cause I thought it was pee!

Kelly

I used to believe in the plane there were birds to make it fly

laura 401

I used to see the airliners high in the sky on a clear sunny day in the summer time. They were leaving a vapor trail behind. I didn't know about vapor trails. I thought that the plane was so high that it was scratching the top of the sky and leaving white marks.

Russ.

When I was about 8 I thought I had come up with a life saving idea. I couldn't understand why when an airplane was going down the people didn't jump out the door right before it hit. I figured anyone can survive a 5 foot jump!

Not very bright

I used to think that when i went abroad on a flight that the destination was in the sky because i had to fly to it haha

Laurie-Lee x

Well, as we see traffic lights, and street signs i thought they had some that go REALLY high for plane drivers. I thought that whenever you fly over a different country there would be a sign saying Australia, America, Portugal etc.

flying high

My sister believed that travel plug adaptors (the things you have to make your electrical appliancies work overseas) were used for breathing through when on an aircraft...weird!

Steve

I always thought that when you went on a airplane, it had to be early in the morning becuz when i was little, we always left before dawn. The whole logic of the situation didn't occur to me until i went on a plane in the middle of the day and didnt understand what was going on.

Hannah

When I was about 7 or 8 I used to believe that there were signposts in the sky so that aeroplanes knew where they were going!!

michelle l

When there was a bit of turbulence I was told that the plane was bouncing on the clouds like a trampoline. I used to love aeroplane flights!

madetobelieve

i used to believe that there were highways in the sky with robots and everything so that planes woldn't crash into one another

noluthando