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the best of aeroplanes

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

— Jeff

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I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.

— Anonymous

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I live in Holland and my Aunt always lived in California, I knew you could only get there by plane so I thought that the USA was on the clouds.

— Queenie

I used to believe that if you waved your arms to a helicopter in the sky it would come and land. Why would I think that?

— Chelle

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When I was a kid I always fell asleep b4 landing, so I thought that different states were in the clouds and thats why you had to fly in the air to get there.

— Ky

I believed that airplanes went to warp speed when over clouds as the 3 times I was on an airplane it was cloudy and pink, they might be some kind of anomoly. I thought I was going to another plane of the earth, because we left our ground, over clouds, and came in at a different ground. What further reinforced this belief is that we always go on an airplane when the destination is really far away, and geologist were talking about "plates" and "fissures" and showed a map of them, I thought they pieced it together to show what it was like before they broke off.

— Mark

when i was younger i used to think that i could jump out of a aeoroplane and not get hurt

— Tom Anderson

Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.

Anon

I used to believe that you could open the window while inside the airplane while it was traveling in the sky if it got too warm inside.

Anon

when i was a kid i used to believe that different states were up in the sky. to fly from new york to californa, you go really high up in the air...so california must in the sky, right? i remember looking up in the sky and saying to my mom "i don't see aunties house"

— corinne

When I was young, my parents and I often slept over at my grandpa's house; just something fun to do. His house at that time was very close to an airport, and planes often flew low overhead.

Around the time of one of our first sleepovers, I had just heard the story of Moses and the plagues at Sunday school. Specifically, we had read the story where the Angel of Death passed over Egypt, and killed the firstborn in any house that did not have lamb's blood over the door.

I was lying in bed at Grandpa's house that night. It was an especially busy nght for air traffic. I was convinced that the roaring noise I was hearing (plane engines) was the Angel of Death flying over us.

No one in the house got much sleep that night, as I was awake crying in terror that the Angel of Death was going to kill me.

— Taylor

Well, as we see traffic lights, and street signs i thought they had some that go REALLY high for plane drivers. I thought that whenever you fly over a different country there would be a sign saying Australia, America, Portugal etc.

— flying high

When I was a kid I used to believe that when you used the toilet on an airplane, a little hatch would open up when you flushed, and the contents would just drop to the earth. Whenever a plane flew overhead I'd run under a tree to keep from getting sploshed.

— Ed

I used to think that when i went abroad on a flight that the destination was in the sky because i had to fly to it haha

— Laurie-Lee x

i used to be scared of flushing the toilet in public places because i thought it would suck me up, also the same in aeroplanes

Anon

I flew in a plane when I was 8 or so, and was talking to a lady about turbulence because I was afraid that the wings would rip off. She told me that it was the only thing keeping us up. I was then terrified that the turbulence would stop and we'd all fall.

— Jacob

I used to believe that when you flushed on an airplane, it would land on the people below.

Anon

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My friend's sister used to think the auto pilot on a plane was an inflatable man like the one in Airplane!

— Richard Davies

When I was little my Mom asked me
"How do you get on a plane?" and I simply replied "Jump up" Thats how I really thought you would get on a plane

Anon

When I was about 8 I thought I had come up with a life saving idea. I couldn't understand why when an airplane was going down the people didn't jump out the door right before it hit. I figured anyone can survive a 5 foot jump!

— Not very bright

when i was growing up a freind of mine told her little brother that airplanes were made of very hard choclate and if you were hungry you could eat the seats he belived this until he was 13 when he actually got on a plane.

— Lisa J

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