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Biggles Learns To Fly (Biggles #5)

W.E. Johns

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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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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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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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

I am loving this series!

Decided on a change of pace and thought this was probably a good choice for a first Biggles book, given the whole 'learns to fly' thing. Very much a product of the Boy's Own "get the hun" mentality, and doesn't need a lot of intellectual engagement, but enjoyable.

Although Biggles may be reknowned as 'for children', this is actually pretty well-written, historically accurate and perfectly grown-up in most of the vocabulary used. Johns writes with enthusiasm and clearly knows his subject very well indeed. This book is set in 1916-17 although written in the 1930s, set mostly in Northern France and reads more like a set of 16 closely-related and chronologically-arranged episodes, rather than a single novel. Biggles flies a variety of planes as they are

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.

How did they let this man write so many books. Amusing at rare moments, but I don't regret not reading these books as a young girl. Also very happy to not need to be a war pilot.