When I was little, I thought that planes actually went all the way up into orbit. What's more, I actually maintained adamantly for years, despite my parent's denials, that I'd seen the earth out of a plane window about the size of a grapefruit.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- I used to think that grapefruits contained grapes, and you got grapes by cutting the grapefruit open.— Grapefruit
- i believed like when i was 3 yrs. old i thought that air planes would come to your house to pick you up!— Brooke
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek