when i was growing up a freind of mine told her little brother that airplanes were made of very hard choclate and if you were hungry you could eat the seats he belived this until he was 13 when he actually got on a plane.
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 think that the trails that Airplanes left in the sky, that's how clouds were made.Anon
- I used to think that the sound made from airplanes flying over me was the antenna scrapping across the sky.— Richard J Brown
- I belived carrots made you see in the dark Anon
- Ice cream was made from feathers. My brother told me it was.— ed209