One day we were at an air show, and my dad was explaining to me how the planes lived in hangers when they were not flying. I was intrigued how you could put something as big as a plane on a clothes hanger.

g&t

I pointed out a smoke trail to my older brother and asked him what it was. He told me it was an airplane. From then on, I refused to sit in the back of a plane, thinking that the plane would slowly evaporate into the air working from the back forward. I thought my best bet to arrive in one piece was to sit in the front. I still do!

Anon

When I would see ads for "non-stop" flights on TV, I thought that meant the planes did not stop anywhere once they took off. When you got over your stop, you had to parachute to the ground. I really didn't get why this was a such a great thing. I'd rather be on a plane that was going to stop before I had to get off!

Anon

I used to believe that Concorde's nose was used to drink water with when it was thirsty.
This 'factoid' remained uncorrected in my 'mental fact archive' until the age of 20 when watching an airshow on the TV.
I remember seeing Concorde coming in to land with it's nose bent down and thinking "Ah - it'll be having a drink after it's landed.... EHHH???? WTF???"
Thanks Dad for telling me that when watching an airshow on the TV when I was 4......

odysseysounds

I had a friend who told me that he used to think that the conveyor belt from which you collected your luggage at your destination was the same one that you put it on when you checked in. So presumably there must be an international network of conveyor belts either under the sea or up in the sky!

Alan

if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you

spam

I used to believe that when they said that you lost your luggage, that it actually fell out of the plane and landed in someones back yard. So i was always amazed when they found it.

Michal

As a kid I refused to get on a plane annoying my Mum and Dad. Eventually they asked me the problem. It was obvious to me - once the plane took off you got smaller - and I wanted to get bigger not smaller.
I didn't catch onto perspective until a few years later!

jonjo

One day at the beach in Boston when I was 6 or so, I asked my dad what kind of plane was making the stripe way high up in the sky. He told me that it was a B52 bomber carrying nukes to protect America. Thinking all contrails were made by B52s, I became and remained a very nervous kid until high school.

Newsboy

when i was younger, i thought that every plane that flew in the sky was carrying Popeye (the sailor man) in it.. i have no idea where i got this from.. i just would scream out for "Popeye" and point to the sky everytime i saw a plane flying overhead.

heather

When I was little I use to think that Airplanes in the sky was really a flying McDonalds....I don't know why I use to think that, but my guess is that my sisters got me believing it, they where always up to no good!

Jenny(TN)

I always thought that when you go on an airplane to a different contry that there were hundreds of trap doors in the sky leading you to the contry that you wanted to go to.

hpfan2812

I used to believe that all airplanes were on a mission to come and attack me, when I saw an airplane, I ran for cover.

Will

I used to believe that 'skyscrapers' were not buildings, but the planes that went across the sky and left the vapor trails behind them...it looked like they were scraping the sky!

Debbie K.

My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".

Mojo!

As a child I could not understand why there were blinking red lights in the sky in certain places (on top of radio transmitting towers, but I didn't know that at the time). My dad told me they were there to keep airplanes from running into them. So I wondered why anyone would waste time building obstacle courses for the planes.

Pat

When I was 6 I went on a plane for the first time, My dad asked about visiting the Cockpit but I refused to go because I thought It was a huge Cob web (sounds allot like cockpit) in the clouds but I wouldnt go because I thought I was gonna fall off if I saw a big spider!

Anon

I used to believe that when you went to the toilet on an aeroplane, it would fall straight out of a hole in the bottom of the plane. It made sense at first; you wern't allowed to go to the toilet on a plane when it was taking off for fear of skid starts. My theory was bolstered even more when I found out that houses near an airport are cheaper than ones that aren't. You can tell that I was somewhat alarmed when I moved to a house near an airport... luckily, my parents were able to set the record straight after they noticed me frantically looking upwards everytime I heard an aeroplane.

Confused

I used to think that when you would go to the airport you would just sit in the seats in the waiting area and the whole airport would take off.

Anon

I used to think that since some planes were faster than sound, when you would talk on them, no one could hear you, except for maybe people in the bac of the plane that might catch your words wizzing by!!!!!!!!!

bigbigburns