Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.
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 the faster you go in your car, the faster the car radio went.— Matt
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.— Edene
- I used to believe airplanes were flying submarines.— Gullible isn't in the dictionary