When I was about eleven we lived near an airport. It was at the height of the Cold War. The jets engines overhead sounded just like the falling bombs in all the old WWII movies. I thought the jets were from enemies who were going to bomb us.
A childhood belief about aeroplanes
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry
- When I was young, I thought that the smoke that jets leave behind them was how clouds were formed. — Rebecca
- I used to believe clouds were formed by jets and their exhaust. — Olivia
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- I used to think the height of your shadow is the height you would be when your older. LOL :)— Kaitlyn
- I used to believe that car exhaust pipes were what propelled cars, instead of the engines.— Thomas Johnston