When I was a kid I never realized there were airports, so I thought planes had long ladders that you climbed up.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- When a soldiers went AWOL in the movies, I thought they physically climbed over "A Wall".— D Rumsfeld
- i believed like when i was 3 yrs. old i thought that air planes would come to your house to pick you up!— Brooke
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek
- I used to think that planes were held up by stringsAnon