Ten Little Albatri

DESCRIPTION: "Ten little Albatri flying on the line, Three Camels met them, then there were nine." And so forth, with various events causing casualties among the Albatri until, when there are just two, "The silly fools collided, Then there were none"
AUTHOR: Qords: Guy M. Knocker (source: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: technology pilot disaster derivative | counting plane
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 45-46, "Ten Little Albatri" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Ten Little Injuns" (tune)
NOTES [90 words]: "Albatri" is the presumed plural of "Albatros," a German line of airplanes. It's not really clear which particular model is meant; according to Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal, Dictionary of the First World War, 1995 (I use the 2003 Pen & Sword paperback), pp. 15-17, Albatros had B, C, D, J, and W types, and some of these lines had multiple models; they list seven major types in all.
The "Camel" is much more clear; this was the Sopwith Camel, Britain's best fighter of the Great War, for which see "Song of the Camel Pilot." - RBW
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