I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.
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 used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.— BadDeal
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.— Outsider
- I used to think that an air guitar was a real instrument. I though it was a guitar powered by air..— Amanda
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon