Biggles Learns to Fly

Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2024-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1835980147

Biggles takes the controls for the first time! Fifteen hours. That is all the flying training seventeen-year-old Biggles receives before gaining his ‘wings’ and being sent to carry out missions over the battlefields of France. Biggles quickly gets to grips with his new plane, but is completely inexperienced in aerial combat. He must rely on the more knowledgeable men in his Flight if he is to survive the German attacks. But it isn’t long before he finds himself in the gun sights of von Richthofen, the dreaded Red Baron himself... Does Biggles have what it takes to be a real fighter pilot? Get ready for all the thrills and spills of Biggles’ origin story as he gets his first taste of combat.

Biggles Learns to Fly

Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: Capt. W.E. Johns
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 220
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479479098

In the hostile skies over First World War France, young airmen die in their thousands as they battle it out in their flimsy crafts. Biggles—aged seventeen and with less than fifteen hours flying experience—is sent to tackle the enemy in what often seem suicidal missions. In a theatre of war where instinct and lightning-fast reactions are the most important assets a man can posses, Biggles must learn to be a real flier quickly—or die...

Biggles Learns to Fly

Biggles Learns to Fly
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Release: 2013
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The book provides a series of short stories showing how Biggles learnt to fly and then honed those flying skills in a series of adventures and scrapes. It also provides a fascinating look at how the air conflict was waged during the First World War.

Biggles Adventure Double

Biggles Adventure Double
Author: W. E. Johns
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2012
Genre: Air pilots
ISBN: 0857532065

In Biggles learns to fly, James Bigglesworth is sent to tackle the enemy in the hostile skies over First World War France. In a drama of war, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or die. In The camels are coming, Biggles realises he needs more than just flying skills to survive against the Sopwith Camel - a demon to fly, but incredibly fast in a dogfight, it commands fierce loyalty from its pilot. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Biggles Learns to Fly

Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: W. E. Johns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020-04-18
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Includes illustrations from the original edition, as well as covers of the magazines in which the stories were first printedNowadays, planes are safe and stable machines. come now to join a joung Bigglesworth's earliest adventures as he joins the fighting on the front lines in France, during the First World War. The flying corps has just been formed and the planes are deathtraps, invented barely days before.Read on to find the origin story of one of Britain's greatest and most loved heroes.