When I was about 7 of my friends told me when an airplane flew overhead, they'd land and pick you up if you yelled loud enough. So we would scream as loud as we could whenever we saw an airplane.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you flushed on an airplane, it would land on the people below.Anon
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to belive that an airplane was my mothers car. I don't no why. — Erilld
- I used to believe that Disney World was up in the sky because you have to take an airplane to get there.— lauren
- I used to think when an airplane ran out of fuel, it stayed stuck in the sky.— BoB
- My niece used to believe that I lived in the sky because she always saw me leave for school on an airplane.Anon