aeroplanes

As a child I could not understand why there were blinking red lights in the sky in certain places (on top of radio transmitting towers, but I didn't know that at the time). My dad told me they were there to keep airplanes from running into them. So I wondered why anyone would waste time building obstacle courses for the planes.

Pat

I used to think that when you would go to the airport you would just sit in the seats in the waiting area and the whole airport would take off.

Anon

I used to believe airplanes were powered by magic carpets.

Anonymous

When i was little my mom used to travel alot so i used to think that the airplane would pick her up and drop her off infront of our house

Nicole Reyes

Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.

Anon

I used to think that checked luggage was put on flying metal disks which would fly along behind the plane...And of course, this was why so much luggage got lost, because it would fall right off. I figured there must be some sort of system to get people's luggage back to them if it landed in your backyard.

Maya

When I was 6 I went on a plane for the first time, My dad asked about visiting the Cockpit but I refused to go because I thought It was a huge Cob web (sounds allot like cockpit) in the clouds but I wouldnt go because I thought I was gonna fall off if I saw a big spider!

Anon

I used to believe that when you went to the toilet on an aeroplane, it would fall straight out of a hole in the bottom of the plane. It made sense at first; you wern't allowed to go to the toilet on a plane when it was taking off for fear of skid starts. My theory was bolstered even more when I found out that houses near an airport are cheaper than ones that aren't. You can tell that I was somewhat alarmed when I moved to a house near an airport... luckily, my parents were able to set the record straight after they noticed me frantically looking upwards everytime I heard an aeroplane.

Confused

I was told several things by my sadistic parents before a flight to Florida.

When I was 8 they told me that there were no toilets on the plane so I would have to hold it in for the 9 hours for the Trans-Atlantic flight.

They also told me that we would all have to pedal to get the plane off the ground.

And again when I was 11 they told me that after the pilot set the course he would sleep for the whole journey and hope everything went ok.

And to top it all off I believed them all three times.

Giggy

I used to think that since some planes were faster than sound, when you would talk on them, no one could hear you, except for maybe people in the bac of the plane that might catch your words wizzing by!!!!!!!!!

bigbigburns

Skyscrapers............. Don't planes scrape the sky as they fly along? I've since been told it's a vapour trail but I don't really believe it!

I'm 41 now

Terrie from South Shields, UK

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

When I was a child, I used to think that the airplane's pilot would throw each passenger on its own house because I thought anybody who travelled by plane had a parachute.

Kinha SP

When I was younger, I used think that whenever I traveled out of the country in an airplane, the place I was going to was in the sky.

Shal

This is one my mother actually believed...way into her forties!!
She thought that airplanes had wire hanging down from them for the telephones they had onboard!!! Needless to say she is slightly nutty my Mam!

Carole

I use to believe that sky scrapers were those jets that left the "scrape marks " across the sky. Living near Manhatten, my folks would say to me and my brothers "look at the sky scrapers" and I'd look to the skys and get so fustrated when I couldn't find any...especially when my brothers would anounce that they were "RIGHT THERE, WHAT ARE YOU BLIND?"

Eric Johnson

I used to believe that aeroplanes didn't move horizontally once airborne. They flew up and then waited for the Earth to turn around beneath them.

Rosie

I thought that the white vapour trail that planes leave behind them was actually from special 'weather planes' sent up to make the smoky trail so that weather forecasters could observe the trail and forecast the weather for tomorrow. (My husband only recently cleared this up for me!)

Heather

i used to believe that aeroplanes would fly and land on the street of the persons house that you wanted to visit, i though how sad it was that the planes were knocking down all the houses on the street. The thought of an airport was just too extraordinary, plus it didnt envolve houses being demolished.

Dee Boy Lebowski

When I was 4, I was at the beach with my family and I saw a helicopter but I could not remenber the name of it , so I asked my mother...¿Mom, what´s the name of airplane´s brother? =)

kari