I used to believe that the attenae on the noses of fighter-jets were for piercing the fuel tanks of enemy planes.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "shark mouth" nose art painted on military planes was to scare enemy pilots away.Anon
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I used to believe clouds were formed by jets and their exhaust. — Olivia
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry