Forced Landing, A

DESCRIPTION: "Ailerons are busted, cockpit's round the flu, Fuselage is twisted... Quite a perfect landing! Crash! Smash! Bump!" The song describes the state of the ruined aircraft, and says that the pilot is "quite unshaken" despite the hard landing
AUTHOR: Music: R. H. Cort (source: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (comic opera "Flat Out," according to Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot technology crash
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 127-128, "A Forced Landing" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: WJL128

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