Come Josephine In My Flying Machine is a popular song with music by Fred Fisher and lyrics by Alfred Bryan.
[1] First published in 1910, the composition was originally recorded by Blanche Ring and was, for a time, her signature song.
She was married to early aviation pioneer Leslie Burt Haddock (April 10, 1878 – July 4, 1919), made hundreds of jumps, and assisted Haddock in the building of the first U.S. Army dirigible (Signal Corps Dirigible Number 1) designed by her uncle Thomas Scott Baldwin.
[3] The song tells of a young man bringing his girlfriend along on a flight on his personal airplane.
For example, the song mentions the couple feeling they could "hit the Moon",[4] a feat which was eventually accomplished less than 60 years after the release of the standard.