I used to ask my mom, "How do they make people small enough to fit into airplanes?" Apparently I had some depth perception issues when seeing a plane in the sky. It wasn't little.. it was just far away!
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe in the plane there were birds to make it fly— laura 401
- if heavy people went on a plane i thought that it would tip over.— michael hague
- Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."— Jager
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon