When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.
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 wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry
- when i was little, i used to believe that airplanes goes out of space.Anon
- I used to believe airplanes were flying submarines.— Gullible isn't in the dictionary
- I used to believe that the roars from airplanes was the earth yawning.— Natasha