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Biggles Learns To Fly (Biggles #5)

W.E. Johns

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 721 Users | 53 Reviews

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Original Title:	Biggles Learns to Fly
ISBN:	0099938200 (ISBN13: 9780099938200)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Biggles #5

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I'm not completely sure, but I think this is the one with the fatal love story. I read it when I was about 8, and I had never read a fatal love story before. It made a lasting impression on me.

So Biggles, who's in his late teens, is a dashing WW I fighter pilot in France, and one day he makes a forced landing at this little French farm. "My mag stopped," he explains to the beautiful mademoiselle who comes out to see what the biplane's doing in their orchard. "Your bag?" she asks, not quite understanding what he's talking about. But apparently it's just the phrase to win a gorgeous French chick's heart, because he's invited back. On the third or fourth visit, he kisses her. "I think my bag stopped..." she sighs. Awwww! Biggles is in lurve. He's never been so happy in his life.

Then... tragedy! He discovers that, oh no, the lovely mademoiselle is really a German spy! She only wanted top-secret information about his Sopwith Camel, which I suppose was the Stealth Bomber of its time. Biggles turns up for a rendezvous, and she's already escaping in a car together with her shady accomplice.

Foolish girl. How could a car ever outrun an airplane? Biggles pursues, his heart full of rage and grief. The shady accomplice pushes the gas pedal all the way down. And, on a sharp bend, they come off the road. He and the treacherous French chick are both instantly killed.

I saw the films much later, but in my memory this scene is inextricably linked to the beginning of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. ("All the time in the world", if you remember). They're both by Ian Fleming. Maybe he also read it? I never thought of that before!

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Title	:	Biggles Learns To Fly (Biggles #5)
Author	:	W.E. Johns
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	June 5th 2003 by Red Fox (first published March 1935)
Categories	:	Fiction. Childrens. War. Adventure. Historical. Historical Fiction. Aviation

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Ratings: 3.99 From 721 Users | 53 Reviews

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Biggles' first uncertain forays into the sky are described with all WEJ's trademark immediacy. I first read this at about eight years old and the finer, and indeed many of the major, details escaped me; coming back to it now I find there's so much more in the book than I'd realised - fear and friendship and deaths and the sheer joy of taking to a new element. The book's a series of short stories and we see Biggles' progression from uncertain Hun - trainee pilot - to professionally competent

I have read half of this book and so far it has been very exciting Biggles has got into the airforce and e has already become sergent after one proper fight. he woke up the next morning and he became sergent

Most of the WW1 stories originally appeared in a boys magazine of the 1930s and if you know a bit about flying during the Great War and the sort of time span this is written over then you can start picking holes at it and my OCD for things like that just annoyed me.However I still enjoyed the stories and the book as a whole. I just imagined that some of the German aircraft were other types!

James Bigglesworth aged seventeen joined the army in 1916 and got posted to the as-yet unnamed Royal Flying Corps. He was a Second Lieutenant and after nine hours of solo flying he was sent to the Front in France. The biplanes were extremely new to war and had been used first for observation, then machine guns and bomb racks were fitted. Triplanes (known as tripehounds) were also in use on the German side. The planes such as Sopwith Pups were made of spruce wood and piano wire, and did not have

A trip down memory lane, so this review is nostalgia-tinted. Its dated in various ways, but I really enjoyed reading Biggles again. This is based on Johns own experience as a beginner pilot in WW1, so almost felt educational at times. A very easy read, but at times sobering.

I was new on high school at Phoenix Secondary, in Manenberg. I was trying to find my feet and my way in this "big school" environment. Being an introvert I did not naturally make friends and my English teacher noticed this and tried to make up by bringing books to school so that I could read. Ms Newman will forever be in my thoughts for her contribution to my love for reading.The book made me believe that anything is possible and kindled in me a sense of excitement and adventure. Fighting evil