When I was 4, I used to belive that Disney World was in the clouds, because we had to take a plane to get there.

Anon

When I was a little girl, my parents' friend from England came to visit us. I asked him if it was a long drive to Canada and he said: "I flew!". I looked at him wide-eyed and asked : "Where's your wings??!" Then the adults burst out laughing and I was angry and still confused about how the crazy bird-man got to my house.

Shir

i used to believe that the trails that planes left in the sky were 'care bear tracks'. it took a while for me to figure out it was from a plane

Emma weeble wooble

When I was younger, my grandmother used to come visit us quite frequently. So in order to pick her up, we would go to the airport, and as I watched her get off the plane, the realization hit me that if she kept arriving from planes, she must obviously live in one! So from that day onward, when I saw an airplane in the sky, I would shout "Look, it's Mama (grandmother in Chinese)!" And the thing was my brothers, who were ten years older than me, did it, too! So I believed it for a long, long, long time. It wasn't until many hundreds of times later and then my riding an airplane for myself did I realize the error of my ways.

Jayce

when I was younger my mum told me that when you're on a plane the shutters have to be open during take off otherwise terrorists could target the plane, I have since developed a fear of flying and she wonders why!

Flames

I used to believe that a "round trip" ticket was where they take you up in an airplane and fly you "round and round" and then bring you home!

Sophie

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

I used to believe air planes ran on batteries. When I was 3, and the plane was going down to land, I shouted out, "DOES IT NEED NEW BATTERIES?!"

Anon

I used to think that airplanes were just angels who hadn't learned to become invisible yet.

John T

when i was little we used to live with our grandma in the country.everytime i saw a plane hovering above me, i always wondered where it was going.one day i couldnt help it and asked my mom.she said "to the city". i had the clearest idea then that the city was somewhere floating up in the clouds!

angelo

I used to believe airplanes were flying submarines.

Gullible isn't in the dictionary

I used to think that a one-way ticket meant you could never ever come back. Couldn't understand why anybody would ever buy one...

Dan

I used to believe that if I was to fly from one state to another I was actually flying to another globe! When I got a little older and saw maps, I thought that if you were in the air you'd actually see the lines separating each state. Luckily I've grown up since then and gotten a wee bit smarter. :)

Vicky

I used to believe that when I waved at airplanes in the sky that they could see me and would "wave" back by flashing their lights. As we know, there are lights flashing on planes often but when I was little I thought that the lights meant not only that they could see me but that they were waving at me as well. I didn't even realize that the lights were flashing before I even waved! Silly me!

Tonya