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.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.Anon
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.— Edene