My brother once told me that planes can only be piloted by skeletons, so until I was 6 or 7 whenever a plane flew over I imagined these skeletons looking down on me from the cockpit and I would take off running for cover.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- I used to think running for president involved actually running somewhere.— Artimage
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek