I had a friend who told me that when she was young, she couldn't understand how they shrunk the plane's passengers because the plane looked to be the same size as a bird in the sky.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- My Sister Once Said That Polly Pocket Was A Real Girl That Got Shrunk To Doll Size And Turned Into A Doll.— Jamie
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe in the plane there were birds to make it fly— laura 401
- I used to believe that Florida was up in the clouds and that's why we had to take a plane to get there.Anon
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague