Skyscrapers............. Don't planes scrape the sky as they fly along? I've since been told it's a vapour trail but I don't really believe it!

I'm 41 now

Terrie from South Shields, UK

I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.

Anonymous

This is one my mother actually believed...way into her forties!!
She thought that airplanes had wire hanging down from them for the telephones they had onboard!!! Needless to say she is slightly nutty my Mam!

Carole

I was told several things by my sadistic parents before a flight to Florida.

When I was 8 they told me that there were no toilets on the plane so I would have to hold it in for the 9 hours for the Trans-Atlantic flight.

They also told me that we would all have to pedal to get the plane off the ground.

And again when I was 11 they told me that after the pilot set the course he would sleep for the whole journey and hope everything went ok.

And to top it all off I believed them all three times.

Giggy

When I was a child, I used to think that the airplane's pilot would throw each passenger on its own house because I thought anybody who travelled by plane had a parachute.

Kinha SP

I use to believe that sky scrapers were those jets that left the "scrape marks " across the sky. Living near Manhatten, my folks would say to me and my brothers "look at the sky scrapers" and I'd look to the skys and get so fustrated when I couldn't find any...especially when my brothers would anounce that they were "RIGHT THERE, WHAT ARE YOU BLIND?"

Eric Johnson

On my first airplane ride, I looked out the window and observed the clouds were underneath me. I went to my father and asked "Daddy are we upside down?"

T.J

I used to believe that areoplanes only stayed up in the sky because lots of hot air balloons kept them there. And when the pilot wanted to land, he'd simply shoot at the balloons with a gun until enough burst and the plane landed softly!

B.E. from N.I.

i used to believe that aeroplanes would fly and land on the street of the persons house that you wanted to visit, i though how sad it was that the planes were knocking down all the houses on the street. The thought of an airport was just too extraordinary, plus it didnt envolve houses being demolished.

Dee Boy Lebowski

When I was a kid I used to believe that when you used the toilet on an airplane, a little hatch would open up when you flushed, and the contents would just drop to the earth. Whenever a plane flew overhead I'd run under a tree to keep from getting sploshed.

Ed

I used to believe that people got smaller to fit into airplanes because they looked so small in the sky. I asked my mom how they got people to be small enough to fit into airplanes.

Anon

I once told my dad that highjackers wait for the airplane to go up in the sky really high until it was too small...Then they would grab it!

Penn State 02

I used to think that when sombady when to the bathroom in the plane it would go strait out and fall on sombody

Tony Magana

You know when you're on an airplane and, as you're landing, your ears pop and it's hard to hear? My friend told me how to fix it (plugging your nose, then trying to breathe out through it while it's still plugged). Well, doing that made such a loud popping noise in my ears that I thought a part of my brain had exploded. People must have thought I was crazy...

Alison

I used to believe that the sky had stop lights and road signs floating about for the airplanes.

LoonaSM's

I used to think when you went in an airplane, you would get really tiny, because when I would see them in the sky, they would be really small, from being so high in the air. The first time I got on one, I asked my mom "When are we gonna get tiny?"

Zoe

Once, Mother told me that when she was very little, she thought EVERYBODY had an airplane hangar in their backyards! The reason? Her father (my grandpa) was a crop-duster and had his own plane.

Grandpa still talks about his crop-dusting days with great fondness and it is amazing just hearing him tell stories: "I got so much chemicals in my system from back then that every mosquito dies whenever it lands on me!" His third wife, my step-grandmother, still has considerable trouble believing this oddity!

Hilary the Baker

The first time I was taken to an airport as a child, I expected to see airplanes flap their wings on takeoff, like birds. I was surprised to see that airplanes could become airborne without ever flapping their wings.

Lauren

I flew in a plane when I was 8 or so, and was talking to a lady about turbulence because I was afraid that the wings would rip off. She told me that it was the only thing keeping us up. I was then terrified that the turbulence would stop and we'd all fall.

Jacob

I believed that airplane contrails were zippers that separated day and night. When unzipped, darkness would spill out, thus causing nighttime.

dusty chenille