I used to live under the flightpath for a busy airport.
At night, as the jets flew over, I always expected that an engine would fall off the plane and pulverise me in my bed.
The whine the turbines made as they throttled down for landing sounded just like something big and heavy falling...
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague
- I used to think that when sombady when to the bathroom in the plane it would go strait out and fall on sombody— Tony Magana
- i used to think that my sister was a genie and flew a magic carpet at nightAnon
- I used to believe Airplanes were things that made air plane- like took out scents, took out impurities, etc...— Emile
- 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