Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter He's an unlikely children's hero. For starters, he isn't a child, he's a man. He smokes. He drinks whisky. He kills people. Yet ever ...

It was not only Biggles who soared into the sky in his aeroplanes – the imagination of every schoolboy in the world who devoured his exploits and adventures also took wing. He was every child’s hero, ...

James Bigglesworth, famously known as Biggles, is the heroic British World War One pilot who appeared in a series of 98 young-adult books by prolific author W.E. Johns. Like the best fictional British ...

It might not look like a text-book landing. But the pilot who crashed this plane into the branches of a towering tree says he owes his life to fiction. Vince Hagedorn, who amazingly walked away from ...

W E Johns in 1960, when Biggles was estimated to be the world's most popular hero for schoolboys Captain W E Johns's unfashionable hero deserves to soar again, says Neil Clark He fought and defeated ...

For decades, Biggles has held children in thrall with his fictional exploits as a dashing Royal Air Force pilot. But now it has emerged that his unlikely adventures may have been based on fact – in ...

06:44, Thu, Jun 21, 2018 Updated: 09:42, Thu, Jun 21, 2018 CAN a fictional hero change the course of world history? Captain, Major and later Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth, DSO, DFC, MC, arguably ...

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4 Extra Debut. Alexander Armstrong explores the appeal of flying ace Biggles and examines the life of his creator, Captain WE Johns. From 2009. Show more Alexander Armstrong explores the lasting ...

A parody of more than just the Biggles books, as you'll discover if you read on. And there are plenty more like this in the Fantasy Archers topic of The Archers message board. Somewhere in England, c.