When I was five, my family was going on vacation to Florida. I thought that airplanes went over several destinations without stopping, so I was afraid to get on the plane because I thought we'd have to parachute into Orlando.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe Airplanes were things that made air plane- like took out scents, took out impurities, etc...— Emile
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague
- I thought that Heaven was literally up in the sky and you could fly there in a plane— Nate