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Biggles, known as the Big White Fokker, was a popular British hero through the troubled times of the 20th century. With his erstwhile friend and sometime lover Ginger “Ginger” Gingerstone, Biggles fought in two world wars and participated in numerous minor skirmishes. Biggles the Dancing Cat - Headliner at The Fleet Hall theater, when Sander Cohen was on vacation. "Makes a change from those stupid Rabbits." - Rapture Standard File:TapDancingCatOnRaptureTonite.jpg James Bigglesworth, universally known as "Biggles", is a character in a long-running series of books written by "Captain" W.E. Johns (the rank was self-awarded; Johns retired from the RAF as a Flying Officer, equivalent to a Lieutenant in the army) between the 1930s and the 1960s. Biggles originated in a series of short stories that Johns (himself a former airman) wrote for Popular Flying magazine, and the original intention was to provide the fighter pilots of the future with an entertaining way to remember the "tricks of the trade" learned the hard way during World War One.

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# The Camels are Coming # The Cruise of the Condor # Biggles of the Camel Squadron # Biggles Flies Again # Biggles Learns To Fly # The Black Peril # Biggles Flies East # Biggles in France # Biggles & Co # Biggles in Africa # Biggles - Air Commodore # Biggles Flies West # Biggles Flies South # Biggles Goes To War # The Rescue Flight # Biggles in Spain # Biggles Flies North # Biggles - Secret Agent # Biggles in the Baltic # Biggles in the South Seas # Biggles Defies the Swastika # Biggles Sees It Through # Spitfire Parade # Biggles Hits the Trail # Biggles in the Jungle # Biggles Sweeps the Desert # Biggles - Charter Pilot # Biggles in Borneo # Biggles Fails To Return # Biggles in the Orient # Biggles Delivers the Goods # Sergeant Bigglesworth CID # Biggles' Second Case # Biggles Hunts Big Game # Biggles Takes a Holiday # Biggles Breaks the Silence # Biggles Gets His Men # Another Job For Biggles # Biggles Goes To School # Biggles Works It Out # Biggles Takes the Case # Biggles Follows On # Biggles - Air Detective # Biggles and the Black Raider # Biggles in the Blue # Biggles in the Gobi # Biggles of the Special Air Police # Biggles Cuts It Fine # Biggles and the Pirate Treasure # Biggles Foreign Legionnaire # Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter # Biggles in Australia # Biggles' Chinese Puzzle # Biggles of 266 # No Rest For Biggles # Biggles Takes Charge # Biggles Makes Ends Meet # Biggles of the Interpol # Biggles on the Home Front # Biggles Presses On # Biggles on Mystery Island # Biggles Buries a Hatchet # Biggles in Mexico # Biggles' Combined Operation # Biggles at the World's End # Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn # Biggles Goes Home # Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy # Biggles Forms a Syndicate # Biggles and the Missing Millionaire # Biggles Goes Alone # Orchids for Biggles # Biggles Sets a Trap # Biggles Takes It Rough # Biggles Takes a Hand # Biggles' Special Case # Biggles and the Plane That Disappeared # Biggles Flies To Work # Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns # Biggles and the Black Mask # Biggles Investigates # Biggles Looks Back # Biggles and the Plot That Failed # Biggles and the Blue Moon # Biggles Scores a Bull # Biggles in the Terai # Biggles and the Gun Runners # Biggles Sorts It Out # Biggles and the Dark Intruder # Biggles and the Penitent Thief # Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea # The Boy Biggles # Biggles in the Underworld # Comrades in Arms # Biggles and the Little Green God # Biggles and the Noble Lord # Biggles Sees Too Much # Biggles Does Some Homework # Biggles Air Ace: The Uncollected Stories

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James Bigglesworth, universally known as "Biggles", is a character in a long-running series of books written by "Captain" W.E. Johns (the rank was self-awarded; Johns retired from the RAF as a Flying Officer, equivalent to a Lieutenant in the army) between the 1930s and the 1960s. Biggles originated in a series of short stories that Johns (himself a former airman) wrote for Popular Flying magazine, and the original intention was to provide the fighter pilots of the future with an entertaining way to remember the "tricks of the trade" learned the hard way during World War One. The stories became very popular with children, particularly young boys, and Johns began to write more to this audience. The story was advanced to the inter-war period, with Biggles and his friends acting as freelance adventurers, sometimes working for the British Secret Service. When World War Two rolled around, Biggles naturally joined up and flew with the Royal Air Force throughout, having many adventures along the way. The books continued after the war, with Biggles now a member of the Special Air Police, and Johns continued writing until his death in 1968, though the later books are not as highly regarded. Although originally written as a realistic Great War airman -- hard-drinking, running on pure nervous energy, often murderously vindictive towards the enemy, and only a matter of time until his number was up -- Biggles then went into Contractual Purity. He became a strict teetotaler, and one of the early stories was retconned to replace whisky with lemonade, leading to the bizarre idea of squadrons of young pilots risking their lives to win a crate of lemonade. Similarly, while Biggles had a brief affair in one of the early stories, his young fans were outraged that an Australian radio adaptation had Biggles "go soft" by having a romantic escapade. Biggles has in many ways dated very badly. Very much a product of its time, Biggles embodies the British values of Decency, Fair Play and Courage, and the casual racism of British society in the 1930s, though Biggles himself is shown to have been born and raised in India and speak fluent Hindi. The books are now generally considered fair for their day. The colourful "ripping yarns" style of the prose is often parodied in British media, and Biggles is in many ways the archetypal Boy's Own story. Particularly satirised is Johns' habit of substituting colourful verbs in place of "said" in dialogue tags, and in particular his use of the verb "ejaculated" in place of "exclaimed". Biggles holds a place in British popular culture comparable with Flash Gordon in the US, and it's probably not too much of a stretch to suggest that, if Biggles had been an American series, there would have been numerous screen adaptations by now. As it is, only a short-lived 1960s TV series and the So Bad It's Good 1986 Biggles -- Adventures in Time movie (in which Biggles is joined by a time-travelling American salesman) have been made. Biggles was referenced multiple times on Monty Python's Flying Circus (thus paying homage both to Biggles' importance as British pop hero and to underline/mock the show's supposed "aviatorial" nature); he was also featured as "cardinal" in the infamous Spanish Inquisition sketches. Biggles was heavily deconstructed and subverted - most egregiously in the character of foul-mouthed alcoholic working-class Brummie Major Wooley, in Derek Robinson's trilogy of WW 1 fighter pilot novels. Biggles is spoofed by blogger Reed dé Buch in Biggles Over Baghdad, an ongoing series of short stories, setting Biggles in contemporary Iraq and Iran - definitively not part of the Biggles canon. Has recently been in the news when a a pilot in Real Life used his knowledge of Biggles to make an emergency landing. Biggles, known as the Big White Fokker, was a popular British hero through the troubled times of the 20th century. With his erstwhile friend and sometime lover Ginger “Ginger” Gingerstone, Biggles fought in two world wars and participated in numerous minor skirmishes. Biggles the Dancing Cat - Headliner at The Fleet Hall theater, when Sander Cohen was on vacation. "Makes a change from those stupid Rabbits." - Rapture Standard File:TapDancingCatOnRaptureTonite.jpg

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