I used to be scared of airplanes because I thought that when we got to the destination,we had to parachute out. This persisted until I was seven, when I went to the Yucatan, when my parents calmed my fears. Looking back, now I think it would be cool to jump out of the Airplane.
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 always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.Anon
- I used to think that aeroplane carry people to a destination which located on top of the clouds — kaizen7
- When I was young whenever I rode on an airplane I always thought we were traveling to another planet. — Dennis Rueda