When I first traveled in an airplane at about five years, it seemed to take forever to take off once we had taxied to the runway. I was sure the long wait was because the pilot had to wind up the rubber bands that would run the propellers much like the toy wooden planes we would put together. . Thinking that made me more patient. After all, I didn't want the rubber band to be played out before we were back on the ground.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- I had an 18 lb. cat who ate rubber bands, I used to believe she could bounce away if not careful.— Dawn
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!— Richard Davies
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto