My family would goto Italy every few years. The flights always flew through the night. I used to believe the airplane would actually leave the Earth, fly through outer space, and then return to Earth to land in Italy.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- I used to believe the earth was covered with shiny cloth at night by God.. — akz
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn