[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

2. During World War II, members of the USAAF sang a song of which the 
refrain goes, "Fly low and slow, said his mother" Details of the song, please. 
Addendum, 2008: I've gone to several WW2 sites, and the line in question 
seems to have been used in many pilot-written songs, not just one. But if you 
know of any song likely to have been the original, I'd much appreciate learning 
about it.
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  Long before any song came about, the phrase itself had it's origins in WWI 
  from true concerns of mothers sending their boys off to the Army to learn to fly. 
   
  5 December 1927
Waterloo Evening Courier 
Waterloo, Iowa 
   
  "Fly Low and Slow" Poor Plane Motto  
   
  Fly high and fast, was the advice given Rotarians who In a decade will 
be flying their own planes, by Robert Cole, of the Cole Electric company, 
and former army aviator, in a talk on "Aviation," at the noonday luncheon 
of the Rotary club today in Hotel Russell-Lamson. 
   
  Cole said that letters from fond mothers to sons learning the flying game 
at army training fields to "fly low and slow" often brought laughs to 
instructors. He explained that altititude is necessary to get out of the
difficulties a birdman is liable to experience and that the faster the 
plane the quicker the controls will respond.
   
  Solomons1pal at aol.com wrote: 
  Colleagues, 

In keeping with a now-ancient tradition (at least five years old), I ask the 
questions that I always ask early each year:
   
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